Social media was not designed to make users lash out. The decade old version was definitely not. But as more users jumped in the numbers saturated and such platforms started fleecing advertisers by showing them the same old metrics of number of eyeballs or clicks grabbed, everything went downhill. For all the tech behind maintaining these platforms, has nobody wondered why bots cannot be removed ? First they discovered bots, next they discovered outrage. And all of this happens with impunity because governments are not courageous enough to look beyond these platforms as as mere intermediaries . No one calls them out because it seems no one knows where to draw the line between freedom of expression and spreading anarchy using these platforms.
It would be nice to have unbiased and objective media. If social media is worse, darbaari media is evil personified.
Social media was not designed to make users lash out. The decade old version was definitely not. But as more users jumped in the numbers saturated and such platforms started fleecing advertisers by showing them the same old metrics of number of eyeballs or clicks grabbed, everything went downhill. For all the tech behind maintaining these platforms, has nobody wondered why bots cannot be removed ? First they discovered bots, next they discovered outrage. And all of this happens with impunity because governments are not courageous enough to look beyond these platforms as as mere intermediaries . No one calls them out because it seems no one knows where to draw the line between freedom of expression and spreading anarchy using these platforms.