stewartmcgown
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I, for one, was pretty adversely affected by what I saw and was subjected to on social media as a young teenager. It gave me and most other kids I knew additional stress outside of the in-person problems that would arise at school.
There is a study on the right wing nature of the Shorts algorithm: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/10...
Nothing about it suggests other sites do the same thing, but if right wing content is driving more engagement than left wing content through outrage alone it stands to reason that any reinforcement learning would prioritise it.