Recently re-watched the John Oliver piece on misinformation, and the part about "Meta spent ~10X as much effort and money tamping down English-language misinfo as they did Spanish-language misinfo" feels to me like it may have explained a lot about voting patterns in the last election.
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No wonder he's kissing ass, he doesn't want 'meta' broken up.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/13/24295637/meta-must-face-ftc-antitrust-trial-instagram-whatsapp
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/09/donald-trumps-digital-campaign-directors-company-paid-94-million.html
I still remember when they got caught A/B testing content to find out which one made users more angry.
Machismo culture and misinformation targeted to Spanish speaking voters lost us the Latino vote
Somehow, somewhere, a mummified monkey's paw's index slowly starts curling.
Or not?
I doubt we'll see normal voting patterns again.
Because the line between being "victims" of misinformation and letting themselves be open to it simply because they're shitty and intellectually lazy people is very blurry.
They don’t have to be conspirators to be scummy and harmful