How Social Media Algorithms ‘Flatten’ Our Culture By Making Decisions For Us
(Getty Images) If you opened Facebook, Twitter or Instagram about a decade ago, you'd likely see posts from friends and family, in chronological order. Nowadays, users are hit with a barrage of content curated by an algorithm. Passionate about plants? Sports? Cats? Politics? That's what you're going to see. "[There] are equations that measure what you're doing, surveil the data of all the users on these platforms and then try to predict what each person is most likely to engage with," New […]#algorithminsights — Public Fediverse posts
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