Regarding Facebook, though, all Lanier's propositions were laid out in a buffet: in politics, it creates a bias "not towards the left or right, but downwards". Any position that could be less evidenced, more stupid, would be the one that would fly.
The manipulative algorithms, the spread of misinformation, the generation of weird hostilities, the amplification of divisive narratives – it was all right there, but on top of that Facebook was already very boring…
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