Algorithmic timelines are radicalizing you for profit

Algorithmic timelines have fundamentally reshaped social media, transforming platforms from chronological feeds to "curated" streams.

Those who own social media claim that the algorithm is a black box: behavioral data goes in and content comes out.
They will try to convince you that they are not complicit.
They are.

Controversy, i.e. disinformation gets people's attention and by getting your attention they make money because they can feed you ads.
This content is messing with people's heads, radicalizing them and right now we're just standing by and watching.

This is going to keep happening and it will get worse until we call out behavioral machine learning algorithms for what they are:
The largest scale psychological experiment in human history.

Don't let them trap you in echo chambers.
Touch some grass.