Is anyone here going through the same situation? I usually consume content about films, series, anime, etc. But out of nowhere my feed started recommending racist, Nazi and right-wing content. I’m not saying that right-wingers are Nazis or racists, I’m saying that right-wing content is appearing to me alongside racist and Nazi content. Anyone here having the same problem?

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1204·
    3 months ago

    That’s what Elon wants you to see.

    Not just on a personal level, but the algorithm knows if you get hooked, you’re gonna be on the platform a lot.

    Like, you’re basically asking why your shady drug dealer keeps trying to get you to try meth.

    They care about profit more than you’re well being. So they’re throwing an addictive thing at you at every opportunity

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      14·
      3 months ago

      I want to add that I’ve left Twitter to escape its right wingness even before Musk bought the platform.

      Though he may have fanned the fire, he bought an already extremist right wing platform.

  • XNX@slrpnk.net
    751·
    3 months ago

    Elon pushes right wing and nazi adjacent stuff in the algorithm. Anyone he replies to also gets boosts and he constantly replies “!” To right wing conspiracy theorists etc

  • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    632·
    3 months ago

    1. They auto-promote anyone with a blue check, which are disproportionately elon stans, which are increasingly nazis.

    2. The Russian troll farms are active on Xitter.

    3. The algorithm likes engagement. The actual nazis, the trolls, and the useful idiots are only feeding each other since that’s a huge portion of accounts left on that site.

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
      27·
      3 months ago

      And Musk is a reich-wing edgelord, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d told the poor bastards still working at Twitter to specifically boost fascist posts

    • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 months ago

      3b. The negative interactions are still counted as “engagement” so anybody commenting against it is unfortunately just fueling it

  • Schwim Dandy@lemm.ee
    451·
    3 months ago

    It wouldn’t surprise me if Twitter is pushing it due to it being proven that outrage boosts engagement. Facebook has been doing that for years.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    332·
    3 months ago

    because you missed the part where an outright fascist garbage human took over twittler to save freedumb of speeches.

  • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
    25·
    3 months ago

    It’s a total culture shock any time I check twitter. After browsing user-moderated spaces (like lemmy or reddit) for so long, I’ve gotten used to very rarely seeing anything more than a mildly conservative opinion. Seeing extreme right-wing stuff, outside of spammers trying to shock people, is almost non-existent.

    Then you open twitter and get reminded what largely unmoderated internet looks like again.

    There’s still good content mixed in with everything, but right wing outrage bait is absolutely winning the algorithm battle over there.

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      33·
      3 months ago

      Your user moderated spaces are also spaces where you choose your own information bubble, the same goes with Mastodon. So you’re only seeing extreme right wing content if that’s what you selected. Simple as.

  • mecfs@lemmy.world
    253·
    3 months ago

    My rule is even though I still begrudgingly use twitter, I stay the hell away from the for you feed and stay on the following feed.

    The answer to your question is that Musk is a right wing propagandist.

  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    121·
    3 months ago

    Not to be like condescending or rude or anything, but, like, Bluesky and Mastodon are right there