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I think that has been the case for a longer time than we realize. These are the same people that sat around watching all the same garbage TV shows for decades, the same vanilla movies, and ate at the same chain restaurants. Those of us that have always looked for our own music, our own shows, our own movies, tend to continue to curate our own experiences on the internet rather than accept society’s spoon fed nonsense.
Yup, before computer algorithms it was advertising and suveys promoting what they wanted to sell and finding out how effective it was. The algorithm is a faster and more efficent version of that process, which does make it even easier for a single person to abuse. Honestly the main problem is that the social media sites are basically a monopoly under meta at this point since it keeps buying up competitors.
The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis