paperbenniWhat the fuck is happening to twitter. Half of my feed is people I don't follow, and all of it seems designed to provoke anger and negative reactions to create discussions and conflict at all costs
There are 2 videos of children getting beat up, someone comparing AOC to Hitler, some andrew tate stuff, anti-vax conspiracy theories
Another interesting detail is that there are like 20 project veritas, benshapiro, daily wire and foxnews clip account tweets, but only 3 hasan piker and keffals tweets. All people I do not follow, all from the extreme sides of the political spectrum
And of course the feed has gained a heavy conservative slant. I would imagine conservatives would see bullshit commie takes, whatever it takes to provoke someone into replying.
Twitter was always a perpetual anger machine, but I don't recall the algorithm actually optimizing for it this hard.