Stop Talking About “The Algorithm” If You Didn’t Write the Code

You don’t know what “the algorithm” actually does, so stop telling people how to beat it

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Many people seem to believe that social media websites are powered by a magical, super-special file called The Algorithm™, as if only a single, complicated equation in a heavily-guarded, secret document…