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Cake day: March 12th, 2024

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  • “these effects” refers to the sentence right before it, “overestimating the proportion of social media users who post harmful content makes people feel more negative emotion, perceive the United States to be in greater moral decline, and cultivate distorted perceptions of what others want to see on social media”.

    In other words, the overstimation of >40% when it’s <10% and the effects resulting from this overestimation can be mitigated through education (that it’s in fact much lower).






  • Biological and psychological variance is an Internet part of humanity. When you say this I’m immediately reminded of fascist ideals and efforts to ‘normalize’ and ‘conformize’ people, and not just from this side of the spectrum. So I think this is a somewhat dangerous argument to make.

    At large, it’s human nature to elevate these kinds of people, that’s why they end up in such high positions. I’m not sure we can change that. And that’s where regulations and requirements by law come in, as well as public record and press, to keep them in check.

    I get the sentiment and frustration in your comment though.