Friedberg: Decentralized media will increase echo chambers and content extremity
David Friedberg · E46: False Ivermectin narratives, regulatory grift, wartime mentality in solving issues & more · Sep 14, 2021 · at 10:56
David Friedberg (The Production Board) discusses what would happen to public discourse if centralized social media platforms were replaced by decentralized, unmoderated platforms.
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“What's going to end up happening? People are going to click on the stuff that they want to hear. Confirmation bias. It's going to become more extreme. It's going to become, you know, even more heated. There's going to be splintering of media creation as there is right now that we see today, right? Every, every element of the spectrum will be kind of produced. And you're going to end up clicking on the stuff that creates the greatest emotional response.”
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