Pro-Harris TikTok Felt Safe in an Algorithmic Bubble — Until Election Day - The Verge
Nicholas Negroponte, MIT professor and guru of media technology, sees in these “personalized news” features the emergence of the “Daily Me”—news publications that expose citizens only to information that fits with their narrowly preconceived preferences.
Ian Ayres • Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Since the For You algorithm favors only the most instantly mesmerizing content, its constructive videos—such as “how to” guides and field journalism—tend to be relegated to the fringes in favor of tasty but malignant junk info. Many of the most popular TikTokers, such as Charli D’Amelio, Bella Poarch, and Addison Rae, do little more than vapidly da
... See moregurwinder.substack.com • TikTok May Be a Chinese Bio-Weapon
TikTok, like all social media, is a similarly volatile space. Your FYP algorithm is supersensitive; “vibes” are constantly “shifting” for occult and obscure reasons; everything is temporary; and your chief means of expressing preference is to either click or keep scrolling. For this reason I suspect that the experience of electoral volatility is bo
... See moreMax Read • The TikTok Electorate
