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by vrganj 47 days ago
Here's a bunch of interrelated links:

https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktok-prompting-users-f...

https://www.dcu.ie/antibullyingcentre/recommending-toxicity#

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/06/social-media-a...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/technology/facebook-like-...

https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boo...

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gen-z-men-and-women-most-divided-...

I see the societal turmoil and strife this will feed as much more dangerous and concrete than some abstract high-minded discussion about slippery slopes. Our society is being torn apart as we speak. We don't have the luxury of philosophizing about what-ifs.