Only change I see to trending is not the algorithm but that Facebook fired vetting team and replaced with engineers.pic.twitter.com/eZxuwUy98O
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It's just not true that social media "only" makes what was already there visible. By amplifying & connecting, social media *changes* it too.
Ideas that might have remained marginal can now find big audiences, which encourages their production, which then means audiences for them..
In a word: floundering.
@zeynep
Whether amplifying stories or inflating apartment prices in New York, you are on to something with this algorithm feedback loop.
@zeynep
Thanks and pls keep following - you've managed to make me more curious about the design and function of algorithms.
@zeynep
its way more than that..its a piss-poor social data structure propagated by citizenship itself selling you as #DataSlave in market
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