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Pod Save the Democrats
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Social Media Is Making Decisions About What to Show People
If a story is getting a lot of traffic, they will write more things about that story. In whichever one gets more traffic, double down on. They are serving us this food because it's the food we keep ordering. There's an algarhythmic issue here. This stuff is travelling through social media. Social media is making decisions about what to show people base on engagement and the way they wait. Engagement is anger, like a dramatic lover somefingger. But anger is an equivalent level of engagement as support. And so when the neyork times writes the story that angers democrats and pleases republicans, that is going to get double the engagement of a
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