It pushes people on the left further left, it pushes people on the right further right, until they reach an extreme that, as you rightly said, is totally out of the mainstream.
Tom Malinowski: “It pushes people on the left further left, it pushes people on the right further right, until they reach an extreme…”
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Malinowski discusses how algorithms exacerbate political polarization.
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