How social media is fueling geopolitical tensions in the Horn of Africa

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6 pointsPaulHoule3 comments

As far as I know, the former yugoslavia managed to be at each others' throats given just talk radio/TV and no more advanced technology.

Unfortunately, I have no good recommendations for what I'd call an underlying social problem. Richardson (who gathered data also on pre-broadcast deadly quarrels) saw a Poisson distribution in Statistics of Deadly Quarrels (1960): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Fry_Richardson#Mathemati...

Lagniappe: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674659216

One could argue the same applies to the ongoing israel-hamas war too. The ideal social network should build consensus not encourage polarization.

Someone once posted a piece to HN that claimed the best way to monetise an OnlyFans channel was to divide the fanbase into two separate cliques (along whatever arbitrary lines) and get them to bid against one another.

I suspect this means your ideal social network, whatever it may be, will not be a commercial endeavour.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw

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