Social Media Algorithms

Because their algorithms designed to push content that improves "engagement" are poisonous?

What about the fact that facebook has an algorithm they made deciding on what posts are presented each user, apparently tailored to drive engagement? They can feature all the controversial posts that stir people up for the clicks. Youtube is similar. One could make a case that these algorithms cause these problems, promoting conspiracies/etc for the clicks.

You blame audience/reach, I blame algorithms favoring engagement (aka controversy).

Yeah, that trending and content suggestion algorithmic feed idea seems to be at the heart of the problem. Maybe making that illegal would go a long way.

Social media algorithms tend to stir things a bit.

Aren't their algorithms all designed to optimize for engagement? Isn't engagement just the measure of how much time you spend on and interacting with their system? Doesn't that mean that they're not deciding what to keep feeding us, but rather that we are?It seems like what they've done is basically automate, "Give the people what they want.", as it were. We produce the clickbait, we click on the clickbait, then we get fed more and more

is the problem social media or the greedy privacy invading algorithms behind it?

Is the problem really "social media" or algorithm-driven content feeds?

this. it's never been about free speech or whatever, it's all about the algorithm which exposes you to radical/infuriating ideas with no care about the content of such ideas and with the goal of increasing engagement.

Facebook decides what information you see every day. They decide to promote certain messages and suppress others, not editorially but with algorhythms.