Why Does Social Media Show You What Irritates You? The Research From MIT and Stanford that Explains the Secret of the Algorithm - iefimerida.gr

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Algorithms give weight to posts that are responded to, and users are more likely to comment on things that annoy them than on things they agree with. Does social media display content that reflects what you believe and what you consider important? Probably not, according to new research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers Ziv Epstein of MIT, Farnaz Jahanbaks of the University of Michigan, and M…