Is the YouTube Algorithm Controlling Us? I Try to Find Out | WIRED

Do algorithms enhance our worst behaviors? How do algorithms influence our world views? Are social media algorithms making the world worse? Tech journalist Sinead Bovell talks with an ex-YouTube engineer, a former design ethicist from Google and an Oxford professor about the impact algorithms are having in our lives.

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Is the YouTube Algorithm Controlling Us? I Try to Find Out | WIRED

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