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Forsho@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Last month i have read an official annual report that contradicts with this article.

We show there is now overwhelming evidence of severe and widespread direct harms (such as sextortion and cyberbullying), and compelling evidence of troubling indirect harms (such as depression and anxiety). Furthermore, we show that the harms and risks to individual users are so diverse and vast in scope that they justify the view that social media is causing harm at a population level.

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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yes, the “science” about “social media” is bullshit all around.

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- Forsho@sh.itjust.works ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Traditional science within social behavior is peak shit due to the unquantifiable nature of human behavior with a very complex mechanisms and impossibility of any measurements of input to output. So i agree with you on this.
  
  However social media is influential in narrative manufacturing, its not an organic human activity, it is a tool that are used to cater propaganda by using algorithms designed specifically to manipulate, promote and Influence whatever its incel CEO desire or have interest in.
  
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