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Social Warming

The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media

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Social Warming

By: Charles Arthur
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Nobody meant for this to happen.

Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide.

Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women.

YouTube never planned to radicalise young men.

But with billions of users, these platforms need only tweak their algorithms to generate more 'engagement'. In so doing, they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships.

Social warming has happened gradually - as a by-product of our preposterously convenient digital existence. But the gradual deterioration of our attitudes and behaviour on- and offline - this vicious cycle of anger and outrage - is real. And it can be corrected. Here's how.

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Not as bombastic as you might expect. A good outline of the troubling facts and challenges created by one-size-fits-all, optimization-at-all-costs algorithms.

Very good and informative.

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