I am increasing convinced that all of the harms of social media can be traced back the ML models used to sort and filter user content. The world of pure deterministic feeds ordered by date descending never had these problems--things would still "go viral" I guess, but it was humans sharing them deliberately to people they knew.
I do not believe this problem can be fixed, nor do the companies involved have the incentive to do so beyond whatever minimal amount is necessary for PR purposes.
I do not believe this problem can be fixed, nor do the companies involved have the incentive to do so beyond whatever minimal amount is necessary for PR purposes.