Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
That’s a lot of words to just say “Allowing bad actors to lie about elections makes us money, while hiring the staff to combat election lies costs us money, and we’re too sociopathic to spend money for the good of the country.”
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I have had a sociological theory for a while now:
There has been two dominate breeds of homo sapiens: the people and the dragons.
The dragons, through out history, have been driven by greed, whether it’s capturing more land, hoarding gold, or accumulating power.
The people have been driven by cooperation and community, whether it’s sharing a cup of sugar, or giving money to those in need, or building a barn as a community.
The problem we’ve faced with Capitalist Realism is the argument that deep down we are all dragons whether we want to admit it or not, when actually dragons are a tiny, tiny tiny percent of the population determined to benefit at the expense of everyone else.
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“Even if we want to do the right thing, our board of directors will fire us. If the board members don’t, the institutional investors will elect new board members that will allow or even encourage the spread of misinformation because it makes them more money.”