We have no idea what content is most viral on YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, or X – because they refuse to share basic data.
On the DSA’s Birthday (Oct 4th) we've led a “mass data access request” along with @mozilla and DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory, where a series of ~20 orgs requested daily data on their top 1,000 most-viewed posts in EU Member States. Every single one refused.
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Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
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Världens bästa Kille™
in reply to AlgorithmWatch • • •I'd say you're framing this wrong. Things don't go viral. They are made "viral" by the companies that own the algorithms. And virality has very little to do with that.
So the question is:
What are platforms promoting?
Phogna Bologna
in reply to Världens bästa Kille™ • • •victor zambrano
in reply to Världens bästa Kille™ • • •my guess is platforms promote throwing people under the bus because rubbernecking brings gold to them.