Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn From Each Other, Research Shows
Social media algorithms identify our politics and then shepherd us into a hermetically sealed bubble, framing our worldview through a window of rage and extremism.
Scott Galloway • No Mercy / No Malice
Designers of both new media and relevance algorithms should take this factor into account. Media should involve individuals in society, not exclude them from it. Democrats and Republicans do not need different pictures of the world; they need different perspectives of one and the same picture. Points of view differ, but not the perceived objects th
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Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It
Filippo Menczerscientificamerican.com
In short, the technologies through which we see the public shape what we think the public is. And that, in turn, shapes how we behave politically and how we orient ourselves.
Henry Farrell • We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong
Social Media Algorithms Can Shape Affective Polarization via ...
arxiv.orgSeventh, the combination of preexisting societal biases and the echo effect can lead to the amplification of social bias.