Might be old news by now but the Rohingya massacre would not have been successful as it was/is without Facebook. Anti-Muslim forces used it to propagate violently islamophobic propaganda, and made it mandatory to have Facebook installed on your phone.
Re: The Social Dilemma’s both-sidesism, it’s so cringe. The boy in the story gets radicalized by a group of people whose big violent thing is… “Don’t Vote!” What horrible extremists! The filmmakers had a veritable smorgasbord of right-wing terrorist attacks only made possible through social media dissemination to choose from, and they came up with the most libshit, centrist ass take they could. Jokers.
I remember it having major radical centrist vibes too. But you’re right it did do a good job of platforming insiders of these tech companies, telling us how insidious they are, and the psychological harm they’re doing.
Might be old news by now but the Rohingya massacre would not have been successful as it was/is without Facebook. Anti-Muslim forces used it to propagate violently islamophobic propaganda, and made it mandatory to have Facebook installed on your phone.
Re: The Social Dilemma’s both-sidesism, it’s so cringe. The boy in the story gets radicalized by a group of people whose big violent thing is… “Don’t Vote!” What horrible extremists! The filmmakers had a veritable smorgasbord of right-wing terrorist attacks only made possible through social media dissemination to choose from, and they came up with the most libshit, centrist ass take they could. Jokers.
I remember it having major radical centrist vibes too. But you’re right it did do a good job of platforming insiders of these tech companies, telling us how insidious they are, and the psychological harm they’re doing.