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This thread—on YouTube garbage rotting brains—breaks my fucking heart. https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1282483254357098496">https://twitter.com/pooklebli...
I watched this happen to my aunt. Within a couple of years of getting on Facebook, she was constantly posting racist memes and trying to convince me that my Arab partner at the time was a secret terrorist.
My father started to go down the Fox rabbithole not long before he passed away. I admit that I& #39;m glad he missed the Trump era, because I don& #39;t know where he would& #39;ve landed.
Someone in that thread commented that Boomers are particularly susceptible to this because they& #39;ve spent their whole lives watching a Voice of Authority on TV spew American interest at them, and I don& #39;t really disagree. Not like TV was factful before.
Side note: I met a filmmaker not long ago who "explored" a story about vaccines and opposition to them because of bad side effects and all I could think was "how fucking irresponsible of you."
And that sucks, because it was a real story and my censorial reaction was not great, but that& #39;s the world we& #39;re living in: Certain forms of speech have put our entire world at risk, and I don& #39;t know what to do about it.
And I worry, a lot, that our general reluctance to view algorithmically-pushed online one-to-many speech issues as a phenomenon apart from traditional offline speech issues is a mistake.
