Hidden Influences: How algorithmic recommenders shape our lives

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You don’t choose what you see on the internet. Algorithms choose for you. We spend 12 billion hours a day browsing the internet. And in the background, sophisticated recommender systems silently decide what appears on our feeds, what we click next, and what we think we want. These invisible algorit...