07-05-2022 07:14 via feeds.gizmodo.com.au

16 Movies That Prove Social Media Was Horrifying Even Before Elon Musk Bought Twitter

The early days of social media ushered in an era of Web 2.0 fears, the loss of privacy and the threat of cyberstalking among them, plus the depressing realisation that everyone you went to high school with is overtly racist.In the decades since, we’ve found new, more existential flaws in the matrix, as troll farms encourage the distribution of false and damaging information that is algorithmically delivered to our apps in order to confirm our existing biases, or maybe make us really angry.
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