Because I work in this industry, I am very sympathetic to many indexes used to measure participation and user stickiness in the film, as well as control experiments. The film is presented in a more lively and interesting way. I like it very much. I am a little uncomfortable with the exaggeration of several people in the film (referring to human beings as futures and quoting voodoo dolls). Although these two are only somewhat related metaphors, the film itself is about the manipulation of humans by social media. It is necessary to explain the facts as much as possible, and avoid such exaggerated or emotional words.
It is said in the film that the spread of fake news on Twitter is six times faster than news. I found this MIT experiment report, and it took 11 years of data, which is very interesting. The algorithm itself is not wrong, it is only used to achieve some commercial indicators. But this algorithm is easier to be used by evil, which is a question worth pondering.
What we can do personally is to trace the source of the information, listen to different voices, and think dialectically to draw conclusions. Don't be easily brainwashed by manipulation. easy to say, hard to do. This is an uphill road to climb, and you can only work consciously in this direction. The improvement in the system lies in policy constraints. This mechanism is much more harmful to a democratic society than a centralized society. GDPR and CCPA have not yet tackled the core of the problem. It is indeed a good start.
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