It’s time to break free from the Algorithm-Driven Life
Posted on April 18, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Resources
“A recent story from Wired helpfully explains the latest batch of changes Facebook has made to its algorithm – the algorithm that sorts through the billions of available articles, photographs, and videos to determine the few we will actually see as we scroll our news feeds. …
Before we go any farther, we need to consider the fact that what we see on Facebook – and Twitter and Instagram and Google News and Apple News and … – is determined by algorithms, formulas carefully coded to spread some content and to suppress others. We rarely have access to complete collections of information anymore. Rather, algorithms pre-sort it for us.”
– Tim Challies looks at the benefits and dangers of algorithms, and he suggests a solution.
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