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The Internet Has Made Men and Women Despise Each Other

Algorithmic “filter bubbles” have propagandised men and women against each other

MediaVSReality
5 min readSep 2, 2023
Freepik

Since around the year 2010, the general relationship between men and women has gradually declined. This is not because of feminism. It’s not because of the red pill. This is not because of incels. This is not because of the manosphere. And this is not because of the patriarchy.

It’s because of algorithms on social media.

Confused? Let me explain.

Before 2010, everybody saw the same internet. Everybody received the same results on Google searches. Everybody was recommended the same Youtube videos. Facebook consisted only of content posted by your friends.

Then, in 2010, something changed. The internet began using algorithms to personalise content directly to the individual.

Social media began collecting data on what you clicked on, how long you spent watching particular videos and which content you paused on while scrolling through Facebook.

Social media then fed your data into algorithms that would cleverly recommend the content you would be most likely to spend time watching. This would increase the amount of time our of eyeballs spent looking at Facebook and…

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