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“Lawnmower kills beautiful 27-year-old. The family finds her teeth”
“Doctors sent him home. He was dead the next day”
“Stuck in a moving walkway. The tourist’s leg had to be amputated”
That was the diet Facebook served one of its users suffering from an anxiety disorder in the “suggested for you” feed. In less than two months, Joanna* (name changed) received over 1400 suggestions, which triggered her anxiety. On average 27 a day.
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That means 27 posts about freak accidents, severed heads, assassinations, bodies found in the dumpster – daily.
Even though she clicked the “See less button” 122 times, it made no difference. On the contrary: the ratio of content she described as “toxic” in her feed slightly increased, from 53,7 to 56.6% of all suggested posts.
#AlgorithmsOfTrauma2, Panoptykon’s new study, carried out in collaboration with Piotr Sapieżyński from Northearneast University in Boston, is out!
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It shows how Facebook exploits users’ fears and vulnerabilities, at the same time ignoring their complaints.
https://en.panoptykon.org/algorithms-of-trauma-2-anxious-about-health
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