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The trend is reinforced by social media algorithms which push agreeable content in the direction of the consumer, and screens out irritations such as alternative points of view.
I understand the concern that social media algorithms have fragmented society, and that as well as showing you slightly too many kitten gifs they might be destroying democracy.
These clips and their popularity among students raise some questions about how social media algorithms might encourage really dumb, reckless behaviour.
Machines will increasingly do our killing and social media algorithms will continue to separate us into ideological silos so that we grow further detached from our fellow man.
This is happening for many reasons including but not limited to: our current online culture, the way social media algorithms work, and finally the overall Internet ecosystem that is based on advertising.
In 2011, progressive activist Eli Pariser wrote The Filter Bubble, which warned that social media algorithms were creating and reinforcing divided and insular online communities that did not interact with people or information with which they disagreed.
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Advertising-funded journalists are beholden to advertisers, page-view metrics, and social-media algorithms.
But would a social-media algorithm get the joke?
In the online environment of social media, Edgerank algorithms edit and remix our Facebook identities, determining which friends we interact with.
The incorporation of social media in these algorithms is relatively new and is therefore particularly susceptible to hacking.
The incident is the latest example of the social media platform's algorithms failing to distinguish between reliable and faulty news sources.
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