How Politicians Control You with Your Instagram | Tobias Rose-Stockwell
Tobias Rose Stockwell explains how social media algorithms, social metrics, and emotional contagion have created a 'dark valley' of chaos by incentivizing outrage and misinformation.summarySocial media amplifies outrageous content: Outrageous content online receives a 177% boost to virality for every moral and emotional word used, creating a feedback loop where users are conditioned to express more outragetakeawayContext Collapse and Context Creep: Social media strips events of their original context (e.g., a resolved argument between two people) and allows users to add their own biased context, turning benign anecdotes into majotakeaway
