Video: OcculTea – Algorithmic Social Media and Internet Witchcraft

This is the #OcculTea tag started by Ella Harrison, Joanna the Polish folk witch, and Leah the redheaded witch. I’m not terribly online and don’t inhabit a lot of the Internet spaces that this tag is largely focused on, so I come at it from a bit of a different perspective. I think a lot of the problems in internet witchcraft spaces aren’t the result of individual bad actors so much as the profit incentives driving the social media platforms that host those spaces–and the way that social media algorithms are engineered to maximize engagement.

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