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#360 - Incels, Afghanistan & Apple's Privacy Blunder

Modern Wisdom

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Social Media Content Selection Algorithms

i learned that social media content selection algarithms, the ones that literally tried to get click click throughs and time on sight, that's all that they'r bothered about. So what they want is to be better able to predict the preferences of the users,. If they can put content in front of them that they're more likely to click on and more likely to stay on than it has achieved its goal t there's actually two ways that the algarithm could achieve that. First one is to become better at predicting what the users want. The second one is to manipulate the users preferences to make them more predictable.

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