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The investigation looked at what content from political parties and politicians is shown to newly created accounts that are interested in parties and politicians from either the left or the right.
It found that the algorithms push content from the far right to the right-leaning and left-leaning accounts and, to a lesser extent, push content from the radical left to left-leaning accounts.
I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.
I think it’s more about rage bait. The far right just happens to have the best rage bait for the moderate majority.
And any resistance to those policies is met with more rage from the right, its a self propelling cycle.
Exactly
Good policy is boring. Good government is boring. A company with moderate growth targets is boring.
Well-informed, articulate, and smart opinions… are boring.
“Moderates” are right-wing, just like liberals.
But still boring