Up Next: A Better Recommendation System
by Volker Weber
Algorithms used by Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms keep us clicking. But those systems often promote misinformation, abuse, and polarization. Is it possible to temper them with a sense of decency?
Today, recommendation engines are perhaps the biggest threat to societal cohesion on the internet—and, as a result, one of the biggest threats to societal cohesion in the offline world, too. The recommendation engines we engage with are broken in ways that have grave consequences: amplified conspiracy theories, gamified news, nonsense infiltrating mainstream discourse, misinformed voters. Recommendation engines have become The Great Polarizer.
Comments
Empfehle dazu sehr den Artikel von Jan Fleischauer aus dem Spiegel: "http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/afd-selbstversuch-auf-facebook-in-der-echokammer-a-1122311.html"
Sehr lesenswert und hilft sehr zu verstehen, wie die verzerrte Wahrnehmung mancher Mitmenschen entsteht....
Jens Nullmeyer, 2018-04-25
