• bizarroland@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    I wonder if there is some unpublished study that shows that exposing people to absurd posts like this actually radicalizes them or causes them to be more susceptible to being influenced.

    Are we MK ultra-liting ourselves by looking at all of this stupidity? I don’t know, but I think it’s possible.

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      4 months ago

      Social media was weaponized in the 2010s and used to spread harmful social contagion ever since. I wrote my thesis on social media as a vector for radicalisation and social contagion.