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It's not just the engagement-maximizing algorithms... ...that make the internet a toxic wasteland of misinformation. I have spent a lot of time thinking about how the content that we see on most social media platforms has been selected by AI algorithms, trained on almost unimaginable quantities of behavioral data, for the sole purpose of maximizing engagement.

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It's not just the engagement-maximizing algorithms... ...that make the internet a toxic wasteland of misinformation. I have spent a lot of time thinking about how the content that we see on most social media platforms has been selected by AI algorithms, trained on almost unimaginable quantities of behavioral data, for the sole purpose of maximizing engagement.
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Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 08:25:05 UTC Carl T. Bergstrom

It's not just the engagement-maximizing algorithms....
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I wrote a thread over at post.news with this title, describing a new preprint about the sources of online toxicity. For those who want to read the formatted version there, here's the link: https://post.news/article/2KwklDyJQ7mRkNlrvRdeUh70Ej2
For those who want to read it here, I'll recreate it below.

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