Shocked how few views this video got considering the quality of the content. Liking, subscribing, and commenting to boost the algo.

The problem here is the guise that this isn't on purpose and that facebook somehow wants to FIX this, while in reality, they are refining it more and more to fine tune it as much as possible to polarize even more.

@SamuelGriffin

2 жыл бұрын

Mark Zuckerberg and George Soros are the two most EVIL people on the planet. Zuckerberg with his phony little young boy FACE, has killed and harmed more people than anyone through his creation of Facebook.

Showed this video to a class of 12th graders on polarization. Great video!

What a fabulous short film. I'm doing research for a paper I'm writing, and this has been helpful in directing me to the right sources. Thank you!

@marcwhilden5517

3 жыл бұрын

What did you find out about the rising polarization in our politics?

@sainaro2335

3 жыл бұрын

Where did you happen to find these sources, if I may ask? I'm kinda stuck myself and I don't see any of the used sources from the video in the description

@emilandersen7107

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Mitchell!! Is your paper available anywhere?

@biorgoanylchem

Жыл бұрын

@@emilandersen7107 id like to know too

@joshuaedwards3322

Жыл бұрын

Good luck, I hope you found at least some of what you were looking for.

These are all GREAT suggestions that will never happen. Mainly because it implies profit will have to come second to human well being. That almost never happens until it's too late.

I believe we need to covertly educate certain older (and others who need it) generations on how to consciously consume information from social media. Also, educate them on the types of literacy that will help hopefully decrease negativity and be proactive around critical thinking/reflection and as a result find common ground and move forward as a nation/world. I dislike individuals who are exploiting off of American citizen's ignorance of unconsciously believing their educated and smart enough to not be tricked by evil hurtful people. I'm a burnt out teacher and for the past 3 years I've been stubbornly trying to provide my parents and family with helpful resources of information that will help them realize what they watch and if the tv people are straight up lying or just trying to express their own opinions and agendas. My parents adamantly tell me that I'm telling I'm what to think and belief and not listening to their own thoughts and beliefs. I've lived with them for 30 years and I pretty much have an internal life script ingrained in my head regarding my parents position on politics and society. Also, my parents have a difficult time following my train of thought and how all the topics I'm throwing at them are entangled into one another. In other words, I like to state my belief, give background as too how we got here and offer solutions to our urgent current topics. I'm trying to show them how to think for themselves and why expressing and sharing their opinions on topics are important to help other understand. When I research their often outdated and personal beliefs about politics and politicians they will quickly turn defensive and always states that I think I'm a know it all because I went to college and enjoy learning. We are getting to a point where our relationship might have to end and we move forward to living our "ideal" versions of what life is. They have a hard time differentiating between what to think, how to think and why to think that.

That was good. It wasn't bias unlike that movie on Netflix, social dilemma.

@pipolino1184

3 жыл бұрын

yes thank you for saying that! Everybody around me was like "go see this documentary it's great". I watched it and I immediately noticed that it didn't really address the problem. They were just saying sensational sentences so that some people would say "wow it's deep". Ok and then ?? they were only addressing one side of the problem (the echo chambers) by submitting the idea that no more echo chambers = no more polarization, while it's completely false

@WriteTheTruth

3 жыл бұрын

​@@pipolino1184 They are literally speaking from an echo chamber themselves. They could have gone deeper on so many things, and really showed the mirror so everyone could see themselves.

@joeching

2 жыл бұрын

the america's founding fathers and governing bodies afterwards have fool the gullible christians long enough that the aim of the country is a military camp. now with the speed of internet, this aim has finally be reached, but little these governming liars realize the demobcrazy mob would first eating into the homeland first. now it's a race between starting the wwiii or the america civil war. hope putin and xi have better ideas. we have our own forum of chinese of all kinds, xtians, jews, muslims, indian, and anyone i can trap.our main goal is "be heard", not free speech, so everyone stays at least a little human, rather than all monkey. """Making democracy work with our tribal instincts is a delicate balancing act."""the intention of demobcrazy is to cultivate the "wrath of the mob" as gu homing and goethe warnedus. the licentious practices of the west based on exploitation and religious superstation are not solution. the only way out is asia's fengjian culture. LICENTISM West’s licentism is a social system based on licentiousness. Asia’s fengjian culture is that based on safeguarded progress, In opposite to fengjian culture’s harmony with nation, licentism has manifested itself in insatiable infringements on others. Human civilization has been sustained by fengjian for thousands of years and is still no end in sight. But licentism arrived on the scene around the founding of America, and, the way licentism is rebelling against everything in sight made it clear that humanity wont be last very long.

I was searching for polarization and I found this awesome content.

The government runs on divide and misery. Once we learn that we won’t live off that divide. We are all human and you have more in common then differences

I would normally say that it is the people's tool. The internet is a tool and it is not good or bad; if you commit crime with a knife, it is not the knife's fault but its wielder, same thing for the internet. Social media is not a tool and it was specifically engineered to be toxic by these companies; if something is toxic, it's more engaging.

fantastic video! almost all of us are zombie-like consumers fueled by unstable emotional impulses.

My paper is crutching so hard off this video 💀 Thank you 🙏

I loved this, it really helped me understand the issue, as well as the ways we could fix it. Keep up the great work!

I call the essential ingredient behind the divide Ideological Possession. Which I see as people becoming so attached to the ideologies that they can no longer hear or see any other possibilities. It is a state on non humanity lacking the ability to cooperate or communicate.

@nmplab

2 жыл бұрын

Social media amplified it even more. I talked to a US friend about it (I’m not from the US) and asked him if American discourse is more about ideologies and less about actually tackling the problems themselves and he said yes. We also agreed on how most people tend to argue the meanings of words rather than talking about the problems too. That’s why I ended up muting or unfollowing US artists on my timeline and also because the issues in my country and region are already enough. Btw, he’s now in another country and plans to renounce US citizenship for his new residence’s citizenship. He said he is tired of the US and his state doesn’t fit him anymore (Texas)

The quality content I need right now, deserving of more views

Fr, I feel like society is just quietly, slowly falling apart

I think one of the many of big problems with social media then and now are those who are running their moderation teams. They come from academic sources, much like you guys who made this video. While your video was actually very well made and neutral on the subject, the psychology field and the fields that orbit around the social sciences all point one direction - left. The neutral arbiters and moderates of 10-15 years ago are long gone and have been replaced by activists and ideologues who all come from the same school of thought. Social media is both a symptom and a cause of our division. But I can tell you the Internet was a much better place when it remained unmoderated as a whole in the early 2000's and moderation was at most small scale and left to smaller forums. RE: opposing viewpoints. I think the problem is the opposing viewpoints are presented from sides that are naturally known to be oppositional to the other viewpoint, if that makes any sense. If I get my piece from Fox News or Daily Wire, and then I'm given the opposing viewpoint from The Guardian or New York Times, I'm not getting a proper mix, I'm just getting one person's bias versus the other. If I had more time out there I'd be able to read everything and figure things out, but most people don't, and that's the problem. By choosing to have a certain bias in the news it essentially made all of us lazy when it comes to our "junk food". Social media AND media as a whole has made the common Westerner lazy in their media consumption. This is the reason why places like MediaBiasFactCheck and AllSides are absolutely ESSENTIAL to today's political climate. They consider themselves relatively neutral arbiters of information, and on big hot button issues they will give you what both sides are saying and try to help you figure out what's going on. This is what places like Twitter and Facebook SHOULD have been doing but the platforms themselves are curating their own narratives as well, often left wing to far left wing narratives. I suspect a lot of you who made this video essay lean left, but this was really well done and I appreciate you folks were able to keep your biases at bay. If more places approached it the way you did, compared to say, the way NBC recently did this past week approaching the same topic, we'd have better discussion. I am to the right of you folks and while I disagree on a few points here and there I can come to the agreement with you folks that this *is* a problem and it should be addressed, but my stipulation is it should be addressed without the cost of one's freedom of expression. Suppressing someone's expression only leads to worse polarization.

Its not really social media that is dividing us. Modern Politics is dividing us. Social Media got worse because modern American politics is highly engaged in social media which makes social media these days very divisive. Both political sides which includes Left wing and Right wing are dividing us as a society. This also adds more to the political polarization going on in our country. Social media these days has become so politicized

@elithompson4167

3 жыл бұрын

You make good points but I disagree with your contention that social media got worse because of modern politics rather than that modern politics got worse because of social media. With only two main parties in the US, a left and right has existed for a large part of its history. The division of Americans has always been a wave though with some periods of time being more divisive and some less but overall the division has never been as bad as it has been today. Historically the only times that have seen so much political engagement have been times of crisis and when I say crisis I mean real crisis. High unemployment, hunger, a major war involvement etc. In the 2010's leading up to Covid, Americans faced nearly none of this and yet they became as political active as people during those times. My theory is that mainstream media and social media have created an atmosphere of a feeling of crisis despite no such crisis existing. This feeling was so strong that it got people politically active. Why would they do this? One reason could be political. They wanted more people to vote for their party and one way of doing so is to get them to show an interest in their movements. Another reason is power. It's amazing how much freedoms people are willing to give up "temporarily" in order for a crisis to be resolved. A third reason is circumstance. Social Media provided a platform for influencers to have a deep impact on the lives of impartial participants who joined up to look at pictures of their friends.

@ryugakishatu6372

2 жыл бұрын

Your point about politics is spot on, and yes social media is just a tool. However what should be noted is that, social media and its derivatives have acted as amplifiers to the very modern politics that are dividing us. Including but not limited to the features such as interest-based algorithms tailored to each users’ preferences. It’s a deadly chain effect believe me

Excellent video. Thank you. Sharing it with all my students.

This is such a great short film of good quality. Can't believe that it has only 30k views.

This is honestly a very well-organized video with consistent taking points. I think that the mindset while on social media is the most significant favor to what causes polarization. We naturally have confirmation bias, after all.

Im doing a speech on how media twists politics and how media is mostly fake and this has helped so much.

Technology isn't the experiment, WE are.

Excellent script and production. Important message! #consilience

I guess the one thing that does bring us together is the fact that we can admit we're divided

Very high quality video that introduce basically everything I want

Keep the public divided so they loose focus on their government

@okzoomer5728

2 жыл бұрын

Well no more like the 1% richest and corporate heads, who own most politicians. The super aristocracy so to speak. They decide the fate of everyone else in America, only care about themselves, and are always looking for a scapegoat such that their servile American workforce looks the other way and turns blame inward. Their favorite scapegoat is any potential bill that directly threatens their power and wealth, so anything remotely socialist in nature, or anything that has a regulatory flair to it or requires them to pay their fair share. And they will fool you into believing anything that is meant to help you, as the 99% component of American society, as an act of evil that will harm you and take away your freedoms, when the opposite is often true.

The older you get, the more you reflect on how news media used to be consumed, the more obvious this problem becomes. So much so that now, no matter which station or talking head you pick it is glaringly obvious which side of the false narrative they promote. My fear is that young people only know what we have now and don't remember a time where debate was (civil/rational).

They failed to mention that SM sites delete opinions of certain beliefs no matter how fairly phrased.

"Saying someone's post is wrong before they even publish is going to make them less willing to spread hate." Are you sure about that, mate?

Very eye-opening

Great video :)

Great video

Super good video, writing my speech on this 😅

I just decided to not have any social media accounts at all, and dumped FB back in 2011. I've not missed it one bit. I also threw out the TV 22 years ago, and I don't miss that either.

@phasemontony

2 ай бұрын

good job wasting ur valuable money 👹

Maybe fast food also giving its fair contribution in outrage culture of the current American polarization trends, just to say

about the only thing I didn't like about the video essay was the underlying suggestive narrative that we evolved from apes..it kept coming up over and over again and is in itself a very polarizing topic thereby undermining the effectiveness of the essay in the first place.. All that was required was to stick to the core issue so that the "polarized" from either side would be more inclined to watch..

teng u misa kartul is finsih for htis teng u somuch

Best way ? 1. Delete all social media 2. Keep personal chat boxes and messages where "social" elements are non-existent, and only texting, calling and video calling exists. 3. Avoid "consuming" information - take it as a leisure. Go back to the 90s - Internet should be a break from the real life for some time, not the other way around. 4. Walk among people, talk to them and know the ground realities than to succumb to echo chambers. Know what is *really* going on, all sides of the argument, and take time to formulate an opinion for your own self. 5. If you can help it, ask yourself, "Does this comment, post, message, or video add any fruitful to this particular event or phenomena?" If the answer is no, delete it and let it go. Its not worth loosing your sleep over it.

good

Social media is just commentary on corporate media. Why is the division then caused by social media?

I think the solutions are fairly bad, since they could easily be used to stifle dissenting opinions. There are far worse things than polarisation which could occur. These solutions proposes, I.D.s, further moderating content, and trying to manipulate the user through selecting what they are exposed to will not work. The assumption is that tech companies are good actors. They are not. Even if they were, why should we trust that to be an indefinite situation?

Or bring us together because of me

What if things are just worse? Like fair enough feed recommendation algorithms nest nicely into our simulation seeking centres... but what if things are just bad and it's actually external factors that are causing outrage. It's difficult to tell which politics represents you because each party mirrors the other in some way, through reaction or assimilation of policies. Isn't it kind of biased to suggest that an abstract notion of centrism is better. Isn't the question about the death of large parts of the opposition bad because it doesn't give the option not to kill people? I think this is biased towards centrism...

So the solution is less privacy and security? No thanks.

There’s a lot of dog whistling goin on here…

If a car of a food did so much damage to society and individuals, there would be massive class action lawsuits. Maybe that is what is needed to actuate change. Psychological assault should be legally treated same as physical assault - punishable. Someone making a fortune on others' injury is despicable.