Today, recommendation engines are perhaps the biggest threat to societal cohesion on the internet"and, as a result, one of the biggest threats to societal cohesion in the offline world, too. The recommendation engines we engage with are broken in ways that have grave consequences: amplified conspiracy theories, gamified news, nonsense infiltrating mainstream discourse, misinformed voters. […]
SOURCE: www.wired.com at 03:01PM on April 11, 2018