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FBL104- David Auerbach: Humanity is Shaped by Meganets We Don’t Control

The Feedback Loop by Singularity

CHAPTER

How to Nudge the Mega Net

Tech companies don't really want to be in the business of telling people what they should be seeing. TikTok relaxed their recommendation algorithms when they were having trouble with recommending too many pro anorexia videos for teen girls. The other example, you know, Facebook in the run up to the 2020 election banned all political advertising. They also limited foot link forwarding to you can only forward to five people at a time in messenger.

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