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The investigation looked at what content from political parties and politicians is shown to newly created accounts that are interested in parties and politicians from either the left or the right.

It found that the algorithms push content from the far right to the right-leaning and left-leaning accounts and, to a lesser extent, push content from the radical left to left-leaning accounts.

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 35 points 2 months ago

I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Also the fact that people with moderate views don't tend to watch political content all that much.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah "centricism" is just privileged fascism. It's the privilege of being completely ignorant and complacent while people are genocided, concentration camped, etc.

Overt fascism definitely drives more clicks.

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Keeping food in the supermarkets and having working infrastructure will definitely generate less ad revenue... I mean "engagement" than threatening to kill all foreigners and LGBT people.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

"Moderates" are right-wing, just like liberals.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

But still boring

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