TikTok customize their algorithm

I like how American society we would all just call our hyper-curated social media feeds “the algorithm”. It’s beautifully ominous. I have observed over the past few months that my feed is almost exclusively recipes. It’s a little haven in an otherwise completely unhinged internet.

This got me thinking about how little insight or control we have over 1) what we see online and 2) what our friends see online. To be fair, I’m not saying we should be able to manipulate or suppress information, but what if you could slightly tweak a friend’s algorithm by adding keywords?

One can imagine the immediate chaos that would ensue if a feature like this were to launch. I, for one, would not want this to go live, as I can’t imagine what my followers would do to me.

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