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One quote that jumps out: “It’s difficult to say with certainty what the causes are, but Facebook has made no secret about its intention to deprioritize news on its platform and give greater precedence to video content, which by nature results in less clickthrough traffic."
It does feel like my Facebook "algorithm" is constantly trying to push "shorts" on me...annoying little videos clearly meant to imitate, I assume, Youtube Shorts, Tiktok, Instagram short videos, etc...
Broadly speaking, with all that's happening in the social media world, it feels like some sort of reckoning or change is coming, but where exactly things are heading is hard to say...
Corporations only care about what will drive their share price higher.
yes, social media keeps proving why a profit-driven society really doesn't have the interests of individuals in mind, companies will just do whatever they can get away with to extract as much money as possible from ordinary people.