Psychologists Examine Downside of Social Media Algorithms
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By Stephen Fontenot  | While social media algorithms have become excellent at matching a user’s viewing habits with targeted, personalized content, psychologists at The University of Texas at Dallas have determined that these algorithms may have a negative influence on a user’s mental health. Dr. Alva Tang, assistant professor of psychology in the School of Behavioral […]
  • undrwater@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Fair. Have you seen an example of this?

    In my limited imagination, bots that flood a topic has a tendency to do that. The the “ask reddit” bots I see in “All”.

    • poopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      Yes, browse https://lemmy.ml/c/memes.

      The entire community is run by Russian trolls who take the following approach:

      • Engage with anybody even remotely critical of the extremely pro-Russian posts, under the guise of being “modern-day communists”
      • Parrot and inflate anything that resembles far-right movements in Ukraine
      • Repeat all the Russian propaganda, such as describing the Ukrainian government as fascist
      • Misconstrue comments and incorrectly extract quotes
      • As mods, selectively delete comments to create a one-sided, pro-Russian narrative
      • Gang up with all their troll accounts onto a comment they deleted, chiming in with “wow, fascist” to make the casual observer believe that message must have been awful and they are the good guys