This is on point > The goal of all this activity is not to debate, converse or exchange information. The goal is to win by being maximally controversial, as th

This is on point > The goal of all this activity is not to debate, converse or exchange information. The goal is to win by being maximally controversial, as that's the behavior that is rewarded. > the real issue: what gets amplified But it can be (at least partially) fixed if you change the optimization function. I advocate for that here: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/bridging-based-ranking https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/bridging-based-rank... And Twitter's Birdwatch (that Elon recently got all excited about when it fact checked the White House: https://twitter.com/metaviv/status/1587884806020415491 https://twitter.com/metaviv/status/1587884806020415491) actually does this "bridging-based ranking" for adding context on tweets. Here's the paper with details on how it works for Birdwatch: https://github.com/twitter/birdwatch/blob/main/birdwatch_paper_2022_10_27.pdf https://github.com/twitter/birdwatch/blob/main/birdwatch_pap... (you can also check out the source code in that repo).