Matthew Remski et al., "Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Public Health Threat" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
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The Problem With the Algorithm
JPCers is an automaton of audience capture where he has followed one sort of right wing, I don't know, shiny object after another. So the algorithm itself is a huge issue. And actually, we've coined a phrase in the book called Algorithmic Charisma which describes this kind of feedback loop between the attractiveness of inflammatory content and the reward system to the influencer as they follow it. Like it's a real sort of hamster wheel that actually just spins to this sort of nuclear speed after a particular time.
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