Steven Klaiber-Noble

@snoble.bsky.social

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I’ve studied math. I’ve studied actuarial science. I’ve worked in payments and e-commerce (but also retail and fast-food). Currently working on ledger APIs at fragment.dev. Father, Jewish, Canadian.

Social media preferentially elevates the worst people in the nation - a small fringe of politically active shouters — to positions of status and intellectual influence. This is mostly just a feature of the technology itself, not a choice of the platform owners.
There's a lot of research showing how this works, so let's go through just a little bit of it:
First of all, Bor and Peterson (2021) find that social media discussions preferentially attract the worst people, giving them a bullhorn that they don't have in the offline world:
Across eight studies, leveraging cross-national surveys and behavioral experiments we find that| hostile political discussions are the result of status-driven individuals who are drawn to politics and are equally hostile both online and offline. Finally, we offer initial evidence that online discussions feel more hostile, in part, because the behavior of such individuals is more visible than offline.

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