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ATLAS · A CLAIM AND WHERE IT CAME FROM

Ranking optimises for time spent, not for being informed

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Why do we stay inside echo chambers?
Why do people prefer their own information bubble?
Why do people like filter bubbles?

→ What leads to it (3)

The metric was chosen because it was easy to log
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Nobody outside the company can check whether moderation is even applied
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Removing a post makes it famous
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→ What it leads to (5)

Researchers ask for data and legal says no
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A moderator sees the worst of it for the wage of a call centre
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The rules are forty pages and the decision takes twelve seconds
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People choose the sources that already agree with them
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Everyone assumes the other side is more extreme than it is
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Every room keeps its own record: its map, its rules, and every judged pair with its votes, downloadable from the room. ← The atlas