Social media culture: how big tech gamified away real conversation

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A lot has been said about how the twitter and Facebook algorithms tailored to stoke aggression and provoke conflict. If you’re Facebook, and you are optimizing for time on site and page views, it's hardly surprising they end up surfacing polarizing content. If it's engagement you want, then showcasing content that plays on primal emotions [...]