[rocketnasa]

> When Facebook was a friends feed pre-2014 something and not a rage feed none of this was a problem.

2014 is significant, as it is 1 year after the IRA went online in early 2013 and Cambridge Analytica was also in operation. The new techniques they unleashed haven't gone away and there are copycats all over the place.

I see no solution short of a massive education campaign for every person in society as to what the human brain flaws are in regard to favoring mythological media patterns. A history of humanity favoring nonsense and falsehoods, a map to the weak spots in the human brain. Machine thinking has been doing sorting the output of social media for a long time now on media platforms, and 'trending' has proven for a decade to be a race to the bottom of exploiting flaws in both the hardware of the human mind and our lacking education on faults in chasing false signals.

[rightbyte]

I dont think Cam. Analytica is related to this. I firmly remember it as some code change at Facebooks side as they wanted to monetize groups (sponsored posts). It was not possible to "go viral" on Facebook anymore in a natural way. They capped it somehow. I worked at a newspaper at the time and the change was very clear.

At about the same time these "Bod Dylan has died" fake click baits raged at Facebook, and somehow they stopped. It is probably also related.