I've had a revelation and will stop doing any politically motivated posts from now on.
It should be common sense, but we need to remember that our algorithms are curated by tech companies in order to make us angry, and therefore engaged. And there are people (like Charlie Kirk, among millions of others) who use that to their advantage in moments like these to try and become famous.
None of it is real.
Don't believe your algorithms. Believe in the conversations you have in real life.
Believe that most people are good.
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we need to remember that our algorithms are curated by tech companies in order to make us angry, and therefore engaged.
My understanding is that algorithms are a technical method of targeting users with particular information - it is not the information itself. We have to use the same discretion about what information to believe, whether online or in person. Whether you get angry about posts outside your echo chamber is down to your personality, @wildland I fear.
