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  1. : Can a Single Line of Code Change Society? The Systemic Risks of Optimizing Engagement in Recommender Systems on Global Information Flow, Opinion Dynamics and Social Structures

    We demonstrate that engagement-maximizing algorithms necessarily lead to increased network toxicity and fragmentation of opinion space.

    Everything is calibrated on real data from the

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