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Sharlintoday at 2:12 PM6 repliesview on HN

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jdifftoday at 2:14 PM

Mechahitler sure isn't helping.

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nkozyratoday at 2:29 PM

Provide financial incentives to make it worse.

virgildotcodestoday at 2:33 PM

I'm not sure if you actually haven't checked it since, but will give you the benefit of the doubt.

Accounts pushing white supremacy, the reversion of women's rights, hatred towards other on the basis of their race or religion, climate change denial, denial of science and promotion of pseudoscience, etc etc. are heavily promoted across the platform and get millions of engagements.

If you create a new account, the majority of the accounts you are shown and suggested to follow will be those pushing the above.

They've switched to a model of paying their users for engagement, which naturally encourages users to post the most engagement bait they can, which tends to be inflammatory and utterly lacking in depth or nuance.

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hack1312today at 3:46 PM

By turning it into a monetized /b/

simonwtoday at 3:53 PM

You incentivize ragebait.

Twitter pay you for how much "engagement" your tweets get now. If you post something that angers people you will get a ton of replies, quote-tweets etc.

There are a whole lot of grifters on that platform making thousands of dollars a month winding people up.

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MengerSpongetoday at 3:17 PM

CSAM?