"The act of choosing a piece of culture to consume is a really powerful one," says writer Kyle Chayka. He's the author of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. If you opened Facebook, Twitter ...
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find our full episode about the 20th anniversary of YouTube ...
Filterworld — the addictive and stultifying algorithm-driven apocalypse that we are all, according to New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka, living through — began not with a big bang but with a chess match.