Ankur Tiwari@ankurtiwariALGORITHMS ARE CHOOSING WHAT WE BELIEVE
You open social media to see what's happening in the world. But the platform decides which stories appear first, which opinions go viral and which voices you may never hear.
📊 The numbers are revealing:
• 74% of US Facebook news consumers say the platform influences which news stories they see, at least to some extent.
• 72% say the same about Instagram.
• 66% of X news consumers believe the platform influences the news they see.
• A 2023 study of US Facebook users found that like-minded sources made up the majority of political content they encountered.
Sources: Pew Research Center (2024); Nature (2023).
⚠️ The concern isn't simply that algorithms show us content we agree with. It's that repeated exposure can make one perspective feel like the entire reality.
But research also offers an important nuance: changing what people see does not automatically change their political beliefs.
The real challenge is not to eliminate personalization. It's to ensure that personalization doesn't become an invisible filter on reality.
#SocialMedia #Algorithms #AI #MediaLiteracy
