susceptibility to programmatic socialization at scale is something we really need to understand, too bad they had to stop the study. today’s algos are a walk in the park compared to what’s coming with AI-driven social accounts with agendas

tbh the more i thought about this the less i feel like this changes anything

it's absolutely a problem – but has been for 10+ years now

difference is it was masses of people not bots trying to social engineer a certain consensus (thinking meta's platforms)

media literacy hasn't caught up (and likely won't)