How social media algorithms ‘flatten’ our culture by making decisions for us

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“The act of choosing a piece of culture to consume is a really powerful one,” says writer Kyle Chayka. He’s the author of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Getty Images

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If you opened Facebook, Twitter or Instagram about a decade ago, you’d likely see posts from friends and family, in chronological order. Nowadays, users are hit with a barrage of content curated by an algorithm. Passionate about plants? Sports? Cats? Politics? That’s what you’re going to see.

“[There] are equations

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