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Casey Newton Jul 16, 2024

There was a time platforms like Twitter tried to remove obvious conspiracy theories from their trending pages. But this weekend’s events showed how platforms are increasingly content to let us choose our own realities https://www.platformer.news/monday-newsletter-3/

An assassination attempt for the social media age

On a dark day for democracy, the rules of the 2020 internet no longer apply

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william.maggos

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but crazy shit gets them more attention for advertisers and data mining. the companies that favor crap will win the market. live filtering means large platforms will have a huge say on what's considered true. that's not good for civics/journalism either. again, we need decentralization and no ads or algos.