Engagement, User Satisfaction, and the Amplification of Divisive Content on Social Media · HackerPapers discussions

Engagement, User Satisfaction, and the Amplification of Divisive Content on Social Media — mentioned by 9dev

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:29:13 GMT

> In a world where cellphones have all sorts of radio antennas on at all times, there are more ways than you'd think. That doesn't explain why soldiers can be identified by their location traces at known military sites; the data must be sent from the device. > The entire point of my comment was that cynicism induces FUD that's not necessarily backed by direct evidence. That is exactly the kind of deflective attitude common in big tech I was referring to: There is concrete evidence for these effects (e.g. [0][1][2][3]). Google, Netflix, Amazon et al. would falter if it weren't for the…

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Engagement, User Satisfaction, and the Amplification of Divisive Content on Social Media — mentioned by x-complexity

Tue, 30 May 2023 09:28:13 GMT

Breaking away from the anti-social-media consensus that's bubbled up here, I haven't seen any discussion about how much the baser human psyche craves tribalism & self-grouping more than anything else. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.16941.pdf (page 5) As shown in the paper itself, regardless of the political tribe, there's a persistent positive feeling that comes with reinforcing the viewpoints of the in-group. (page 4) It should also be noted that the personalized tweets are self-reported to be rated slightly higher than the chronological tweets, with political tweets being the exception. In…

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Engagement, User Satisfaction, and the Amplification of Divisive Content on Social Media — HN submission

Tue, 30 May 2023 07:18:14 GMT

Twitter's Algorithm: Amplifying Anger, Animosity, and Affective Polarization

106 points; 109 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.