On: What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users

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Here's an article from today contradicting your initial claim pretty neatly: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740703/twitter-algorit...

[systemvoltage → malermeister]

I was thinking perhaps about the leadership (Jack vs. Zuck/Thiel). This is good clarification regardless.

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Interesting. Jack strikes me more of a right wing libertarian type, where did you get the left wing impression from?

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Jack is left liberatarian, Thiel is right liberatarian. I've studied Thiel quite a bit, haven't studied Jack as much. It's also possible that they are both left in pre-2015 era, but the left has moved further out today (likewise, the far right is unrecognizeable today). I consider them all intellectuals and interesting.

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I'm not sure being left libertarian is compatible with being a CEO as left libertarianism calls for abolishing private ownership of the means of production... (maybe elected CEO of a coop might be compatible with those views? either way, nothing like what Twitter is doing)