Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The political effects of X’s f...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

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US corporate social media is a tool for data collection, propaganda and regime change, and the response of the American govt to China-owned TikTok ought to be taken as a warning to European govts.

@ReggieHere @georgemonbiot.bsky.social I have ditched X, FB and IG but Gmail and the rest of bigG trammelment will be difficult to scrape off.