Democracy and Curative Algorithms

A Cautious Critique of Social Media and Democracy

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When I publish this story on Medium, who will see it? On whose feed will my story appear? Well, I am quite as clueless as you are.

Once this story is published, I have basically handed it over to Medium’s algorithm which decides what to do with it and how to distribute it. The algorithm will take…