• bizarroland
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    163 months ago

    I wonder if there is some unpublished study that shows that exposing people to absurd posts like this actually radicalizes them or causes them to be more susceptible to being influenced.

    Are we MK ultra-liting ourselves by looking at all of this stupidity? I don’t know, but I think it’s possible.

    • @Agent641
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      3 months ago

      Social media was weaponized in the 2010s and used to spread harmful social contagion ever since. I wrote my thesis on social media as a vector for radicalisation and social contagion.

      • @Land_Strider
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        43 months ago

        Thesis on social media as a vector for radicalisation and social contagion? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of social media? Localized entirely within your Lemmy user?

        May we see it?

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          Aside from the fact that it’d be very easy to dox this guy if they did, I too would be interested to read it.

          • @Land_Strider
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            23 months ago

            Hmm, yeah hadn’t thought of that part.