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The problem isn’t social media, the problem is unmoderated social media that uses engagement metrics to drive their algorithms. They’re selecting for the most hateful, divisive content.

It’s YouTube, it’s Facebook, it’s twitter.

Those three sites are the problem. Reddit has a lot of hateful bullshit but you need to go out of your way to find it. YouTube and Facebook feed you a heroin drip of it all day long.



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