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Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Researchers say extreme content being pushed on young people and becoming normalised

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[–] snooggums@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They push the stuff that people spend more time interacting with. People tend to interact more with negative stuff.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Facebook could modify the algorithm to detect if a post is negative and discart them.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Why would they do that?

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They could in theory, but that would drive down engagement and they would make less money.

It is pretty hard to identify negative posts separately from hyperbolic exaggeration though. How do you tell ridiculous rage bait from a good Onion article when the only real difference in context is who posted it?