Facebook figured this out too a long time ago when building news tab.
But unfortunately they also saw that these people were 90% aligned with the same political party and Joel Kaplan helped Zuck understand that actioning it would mean declaring war on the party.
So Zuck tucked his tail.
Proving once again that most of our problems today are not tech problems and don’t have tech solutions but are societal in nature.
We know what to do on climate change, we just don’t like the tradeoff. Or more precisely our governmental systems can not overcome the resistance because we forgot to incentivize long term survival.
So many points. Does your thinking start with “it is obvious that…” or “the right side of history” ? We as humans are just very susceptible to a combination of fallacy and social reinforcement, no matter our political stance.
No, we are not. It is just Western-centrism, and you for some reason forget, that there is 5 billion more people on the Planet, for whom the consequences of the fight against CO2 emission is more dangerous then the global warming. The same goes for microplastics pollution and the other things you listed.
But unfortunately they also saw that these people were 90% aligned with the same political party and Joel Kaplan helped Zuck understand that actioning it would mean declaring war on the party.
So Zuck tucked his tail.
Proving once again that most of our problems today are not tech problems and don’t have tech solutions but are societal in nature.
We know what to do on climate change, we just don’t like the tradeoff. Or more precisely our governmental systems can not overcome the resistance because we forgot to incentivize long term survival.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/25/facebook-fatal-flaw...
We know what to do about misinformation.
We know what to do about micro plastics pollution
We know what to do about antibiotic resistance
We know what to do about gun violence.
So we hold out for magical technology fixes.
The special trick in the US is that everything can be made a partisan problem, which instantly means paralyzing government intervention.