engagement maximization A plugin to force Twitter to respect your settings and stop showing you "top" tweets Cory Doctorow
terreg Competition can fix Big Tech, but only if we don't make "bigness" a legal requirement Cory Doctorow
zuck's empire of oily rags Facebook's "celebration" and "memories" algorithms are auto-generating best-of-terror-recruiting pages for extremist groups Cory Doctorow
engagement maximization Facebook's year-old "improvements" to the newsfeed have elevated enraging Fox News posts to the service's dominant form Cory Doctorow
beep beep #neo-nazis are here "Friendly" apps are good at maximizing engagement, but their context-blindness is a cesspit of algorithmic cruelty Cory Doctorow