"In a recent series of experiments, we paid people a few dollars to #unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. After a month, they reported feeling 23% less animosity towards other political groups. In fact, their experience was so positive that nearly half the people declined to refollow those hostile accounts … #Platforms could easily redesign their #algorithms to stop promoting the most outrageous voices and prioritise more representative or nuanced content." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us
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That XOR Trick (2020)
https://florian.github.io//xor-trick/
#HackerNews#That#XOR#Trick #(2020) #XOR#Trick#Programming#Algorithms#HackerNews#TechInsights
#Europe Calling is hosting a webinar on Monday 13 January at 20.00 CET:
Hostile Takeover? How tech #billionaires are undermining our #democracy and what the #EU can do
We will take a close look at tech billionaires, their #platforms, #algorithms and #strategies. We also want to talk about #freedom of expression and #censorship and what the EU can and should do in concrete terms now.
Simultaneously interpreted in German and English.
Full details here: https://europe-calling.de/en/webinar/tech-billionaires/
