Forums › Forums › Social Media › Are social platforms optimizing for the wrong metric? › Reply To: Are social platforms optimizing for the wrong metric? marc_ltn Guest February 18, 2026 at 9:23 am They’re optimizing for attention because attention pays the bills, credibility is just a nice side effect when it happens. The algo doesn’t care who’s right, it cares who keeps you scrolling. Long-term trust is great, but quarterly revenue says hi.
