engagement metrics

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quantitative measures of how users interact with content on digital platforms, including likes, comments, shares, saves, click-through rates, watch time, and scroll depth; engagement metrics are the primary currency of the attention economy, used by platforms to rank content in algorithmic feeds, by advertisers to assess campaign effectiveness, and by creators to understand audience behaviour; the primacy of engagement metrics in platform design has been widely criticised for incentivising content that triggers emotional reactions — outrage, anxiety, desire — rather than content that is accurate, nuanced, or genuinely useful, contributing to the degradation of information quality on social media