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elsat | 10 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +4 
 GM ☀️

What is not being emotionally manipulated by social media algos worth to you?

#facebook
#twitter
#wef-chat
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516add19 | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Gm🫂
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Vladimir Krstić | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 To not start a war. 

I’m a Serbian visiting a Twitter from Serbia. For whoever doesn’t know, Serbs and Albanians are not keen on each other. So, In the past six months or so, I started getting more and more content out of nowhere with hate speech towards Serbia and Serbs. Content that is posted by Albanians and Austrian politicians(don’t know what their agenda is, don’t care). Twitter wants me to hate Albanians because a minority of them hate me. I have no doubts that similar content from the Serbian side is pointed at the Albanians, but I don’t get that served. Twitter shows me hateful Albanians but doesn’t show me hateful Serbs. Twitter wants me to hate Albanians.
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Karnage | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It’s not likely out of nowhere. Twitter doesn’t care who you hate. You probably clicked some adjacent tweets that link to an account that is related to other accounts whose tweets you now see.
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BOOK IT | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Actual proper discussions and debates vs emotionally driven arguments. ;)