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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