Is anyone here going through the same situation? I usually consume content about films, series, anime, etc. But out of nowhere my feed started recommending racist, Nazi and right-wing content. I’m not saying that right-wingers are Nazis or racists, I’m saying that right-wing content is appearing to me alongside racist and Nazi content. Anyone here having the same problem?

  • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    1. They auto-promote anyone with a blue check, which are disproportionately elon stans, which are increasingly nazis.

    2. The Russian troll farms are active on Xitter.

    3. The algorithm likes engagement. The actual nazis, the trolls, and the useful idiots are only feeding each other since that’s a huge portion of accounts left on that site.

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
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      4 months ago

      And Musk is a reich-wing edgelord, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d told the poor bastards still working at Twitter to specifically boost fascist posts

    • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      3b. The negative interactions are still counted as “engagement” so anybody commenting against it is unfortunately just fueling it