People know about Facebook's problems, but assume they are largely immune – even while they imagine that everyone else is very susceptible to influence.
Feedback loops in algorithms amplify chosen content, to the exclusion of others.
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Algorithms used by social media networks expose users to divisive content separating them into bubbles. But the ways in which they are trained amplifies the effects of the filter bubble.
A signed copy of Marcel Proust’s ‘Du cote de chez Swann’ . Proust highlighted France’s bitter debate about the Dreyfus affair.
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