
253. Is the Internet Being Ruined?
Freakonomics Radio
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Facebook Censoring Ferguson News
CNN's John Sutter noticed that while Twitter was full of Ferguson news, Facebook's algorithm had largely missed the protests. This is not saying Facebook was intentionally censoring Ferguson news; it's more complex. These complex algorithms are having all these downstream effects that nobody is really thinking or systematically researching because they're so untransparent.
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