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Adam Swart Speaks to the Dangers of Social Media Algorithms · Palafox Media Network

Greg Fink: Because social media is already dangerous with its algorithms, because the algorithms know everything about you, right? They know exactly they know more about you than you know about yourself. You know how I know that? So on Twitter X, if I just hover over a really offensive post, they might think Adam's really interested in this offensive thing. So they're gonna start showing me more of that stuff. Even if I didn't wanna even see that, they they their algorithm tells me them. He's curious and maybe he doesn't agree, but if they send you down a rabbit hole, then that helps their bottom line, and that's good for their business, right? Because the longer they keep you there, the more ads they sell, the more money they make. So it's it's as if Coca-Cola could engineer a specific drink that is addictive to you, Greg, or to you, Scott. So the food companies make it addictive, but these guys know so much more about you, it's like a perfectly engineered product toward each person, training on our worst impulses.