It's so garbage. My work computer has the little shortcut to the stories so I find myself taking a peak at them when I'm bored. I've noticed that any stories about covid get the most interaction via the thumbs up/down. All the other stories will get a few dozen to maybe a couple of hundred interactions normally, while the covid ones will have thousands of thumbs down reactions. I'm guessing it's mostly out of touch boomers that use it alongside facebook as their main news sources, so it's been tailored to them, and the thumbsdown always crack me up on the covid stories because it's like, what are you thumbsdowning? Scientists say there is a new strain, or this many people died, or cases are up by this much, and it gets piled on with hate because what? You want to deny reality or something?