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poisonous_dart

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poisonous_dart··on 'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth
I don't know, guys. The world before complex algorithms generating clicks on the Internet was pretty biased and stupid. I don't think autoplay is going to be the thing that destroys our collective intelligence for us.

If we want our society to be less prone to fictitious nonsense, education that encourages critical thinking and a rudimentary of statistics should be encouraged, but that's often not interesting enough to write about for many journalists, nor is it an easy problem to tackle.