Sublime

a burgeoning boredom—as well as a sense of intrusion, that the influence of digital platforms was extending somewhere that it had not theretofore…

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Putting humans back in the loop in certain capacities, such as through middleware, is potentially transformative. So is scaling back the algorithms. It’s probably time to get rid of wholly automated trends features. Gaming them is a key element in creating majority illusions, projecting false consensus, and driving abuse toward Main Characters.

We should take seriously the idea that users have a right both to see and to alter any preference model that a site or app or advertiser has about them.

The paper, in other words, did not merely cover the news—it created it.