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How Do We Stop Hating the Internet?

Author
Tanya Acker
Published
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Episode Link
https://the-tanya-acker-show.captivate.fm/episode/how-do-we-stop-hating-the-internet

Over the last decade, our Internet experience has become increasingly dictated by algorithms- data-driven equations that try to anticipate (and elicit) our desires. The problem is, they often get it wrong. The math doesn't math.

Kyle Chayka (staff writer,The New Yorker) has written a new book on the subject entitled "Filterworld."

This week, Tanya and Kyle talk about this ever-tightening web woven by algorithms and how we can begin breaking free from it.

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