• Risk@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    So, the societal problem is created when bad faith actors are given a platform, right? But bad faith actors tend to be great at generating outrage and division and thus drive engagement and clicks - which makes money for the platforms.

    How do we solve this?

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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      11 months ago

      Democracy solves it. If people don’t vote in these people, they don’t get the platform.

      Now, how do we get people to not vote in bigots and idiots? By not being bigots and idiots themselves. I.e. education and free thinking.

      How do we protect education from budget cuts and protect free thinking from corporate and foreign interests that seek to undermine it, especially while the bigots still have a tenuous hold on the population? Now, that is the real question.

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        11 months ago

        That’s not really true, unfortunately. People don’t need to be in an elected position to be given a platform by media.

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            11 months ago

            But the end result is the platform influences voters leading to election of those or similar individuals.

    • chitak166@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Just vote for the lesser-bad-faith actor.

      That will surely solve the problem.