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    Greg Wilson (gvwilson@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Aug-2025 10:19:15 JSTGreg WilsonGreg Wilson

    Larooij & Törnberg 2025: "Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation" https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385 The authors built a bots-only "social" network and found it inevitably spiraled down into partisan echo chambers, elite formation, and polarization. None of the six mitigation strategies they implemented (including chronological feeds, hiding likes, and bridging strategies) changed those outcomes. #nwit

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      Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation
      Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions? We address this question using a novel method - generative social simulation - that embeds Large Language Models within Agent-Based Models to create socially rich synthetic platforms. We create a minimal platform where agents can post, repost, and follow others. We find that the resulting following-networks reproduce three well-documented dysfunctions: (1) partisan echo chambers; (2) concentrated influence among a small elite; and (3) the amplification of polarized voices - creating a 'social media prism' that distorts political discourse. We test six proposed interventions, from chronological feeds to bridging algorithms, finding only modest improvements - and in some cases, worsened outcomes. These results suggest that core dysfunctions may be rooted in the feedback between reactive engagement and network growth, raising the possibility that meaningful reform will require rethinking the foundational dynamics of platform architecture.
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