I was having a late night conversation with a friend, lamenting how content algos drive so much of the propaganda and political movement. They mentioned how one of the most effective ways to get family members off of Q-Anon was to log into their computers and unsubscribe from extreme content and resubscribe to mainstream content. The majority of family members were not tech-savvy enough to understand the difference and over the course of months they automatically de-radicalized.
It made me curious if there were examples of viruses/malware whose intent was to actually help end users. Obviously, it's a grey area in terms of respecting agency, but I think algo-content walks the same grey area.
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