There is this court case in the US against meta.
We probably don't have clear empiricial evidence for objectively the highest death count.
I think facebook, Instagram, X, discord and some messengers can all be pretty damaging.
The worst things I associate with each platform.
Facebook - bullying (I think you could bully people who expressed suicidality by reporting them and Facebook eventually punished these people. I think this reporting mechanism was abused)
Instagram - distorted body image, depression, the false notion other people were better looking and all way more happy than oneself
X - deepfakes without consent also from minors, allows bullying, very toxic content
Telegram - drug selling, shady messenger, shady founder, some usage in dictatorships
Discord - I think the 764 community used this livestream their crimes, I think the moderation can be insufficient, and I am sceptical of privacy standards
Considering the death count the question would be: absolute number most people who committed suicide influenced by the algorithm or platform logic. Or the highest ratio of ctb per user.
We probably don't have clear empiricial evidence for objectively the highest death count.
I think facebook, Instagram, X, discord and some messengers can all be pretty damaging.
The worst things I associate with each platform.
Facebook - bullying (I think you could bully people who expressed suicidality by reporting them and Facebook eventually punished these people. I think this reporting mechanism was abused)
Instagram - distorted body image, depression, the false notion other people were better looking and all way more happy than oneself
X - deepfakes without consent also from minors, allows bullying, very toxic content
Telegram - drug selling, shady messenger, shady founder, some usage in dictatorships
Discord - I think the 764 community used this livestream their crimes, I think the moderation can be insufficient, and I am sceptical of privacy standards
Considering the death count the question would be: absolute number most people who committed suicide influenced by the algorithm or platform logic. Or the highest ratio of ctb per user.
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