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Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah with and unexpected and weird knock on effect

The Culture Wars drive engagement and so it's beneficial to keep driving views and clicks that play into it... but that makes it sound like there's some "actual" driving intelligence behind it when there isn't... there isn't a consciousness that knows what it's doing or knows what the consequences are... it's just... maths. And there's something even creepier about that, somehow .