• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    Wasn’t this literally the shady research that Facebook got caught doing with Cambridge Analytica? Specifically tweaking a user’s feed to be more negative resulted in that user posting more negative things themselves and more engagement overall.

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      3 hours ago

      Yep!

      Facebook figured out how to monetize trolling.

      Over 10 years later, it’s destroyed society, but made them a lot of money.

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      6 hours ago

      I wonder exactly how much of Hawaii Zuckerberg has to own before people start to question what they are getting from facebook.