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Sep 14, 2020 · The Social Dilemma opens our eyes to the way our lives are constantly monitored – and controlled – by these platforms. It’s the Truman Show on steroids, monitoring one third of the planet. Rasha Abdul Rahim, Co-Director Amnesty Tech.
- Misinformation
- Addiction
- Users as A Product
- Intelligent Manipulation
- Social Media Being The Primary Mode of Socialisation
The matter of the fact is that misinformation on social media is rampant, and it’s causing large scale effects from conspiracy theories, harmful movements, and societal manipulation. Anyone can post on social media and anyone can see what anyone posts on social media, so anyone can post misinformation and share it to a potential audience of million...
I don’t think there can be any doubt that social media, and in fact most software, is addictive. These platforms aim to increase engagement over time. Developers will test the performance of tweaks to the software to see if engagement improves, and whether developers realise it or not, they tweak it to become more sugary, distracting, and addictive...
With most social media the main source of income doesn’t come from the millions of users interacting with the platform, it’s the advertisers who pay for their content to be slipped into the peripheral vision of those engaging with the platform. Because of this, we have created a business model where the main consumers' interests are being undermine...
Over the past decade, we’ve taught AI how to efficiently manipulate people in a way that is not understandable or transparent to the people who created them. Almost all of the content you see on the internet is recommended and chosen specifically for you by a computer that is just playing a numbers game. It doesn’t have any rationality about what i...
Social media isn’t the first time humanity has had concerns with how we interact with each other. It wasn’t much longer than a decade ago when we thought texting was a major issue. Even Socrates in his time was concerned that written language was going to be damaging to society. Now social media is leading to rising rates of loneliness, teen suicid...
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Oct 11, 2020 · Fixing “The Social Dilemma” Unpacking the biases & algorithms that govern our lives. Nader Helmy. ·. Follow. 14 min read. ·. Oct 11, 2020. In the recently released Netflix documentary The...
Sep 20, 2020 · Published: Sun 20 September 2020. Still from the Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma. Netflix recently aired a new documentary, "The Social Dilemma", which explores in detail the harmful effects that social networks such as Facebook and Instagram have on individuals and society at large.
Oct 6, 2020 · The Social Dilemma focuses on how big social media companies manipulate users by using algorithms that encourage addiction to their platforms. It also shows, fairly accurately,...
Dec 18, 2020 · By. Peter Dizikes. December 18, 2020. Penguin Random House. When is the last time you checked Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram? Last night? Before breakfast? Five minutes ago? If you do have a...
Aug 26, 2016 · What should be done to solve social dilemmas? Or. How can we encourage people’s cooperation in a social dilemma situation? Moreover, to date, research has focused on the two kinds of factors determining people’s cooperation: external environmental factors and internal psychological factors.
