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Your Metadata Is Your Demo Tape Now

64% of streaming discovery sessions now start with a text prompt, not a human recommendation. The algorithm doesn't care if your song is good. It cares if your metadata is correct. That's a different problem, and the music industry is pretending it isn't.

By Zara Mitchell · 3 min read

Tech & AI

Meta's Internal Docs Are the Only Evidence That Matters

Meta's own engineers called themselves drug pushers in internal documents. California juries just agreed with the diagnosis. The question now is whether product liability law can hold algorithmic design to the same standard as a defective car part.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read

Culture

The Algorithm Doesn't Radicalize You All at Once

TV gave everyone the same two minutes of Senate floor shouting, and then it was over. Social media gives you a personalized drip of the content most likely to make you specifically furious, and it never stops. The mechanism is not mysterious, and the platforms are not helpless.

By Jules Fontaine · 3 min read

Culture

Anger Is a Product Meta Sells at Scale

Meta's own internal documents confirm what the algorithms were built to do. Anger drives sessions, sessions sell ads, and the math has always been that simple. The question is whether regulators will finally treat it as a product liability problem.

By Zara Mitchell · 3 min read