It's less to do with how underlying algorithm reflects the author and their network's pre-existing preferences and more to do with the entities that buy vast amounts of "promoted content" (political moderates don't buy "likes", except maybe when running for office) and what garners clickthroughs (surprisingly, outside HN "Key Advances in the OpenGL Ecosystem", "A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra" or even "Conway's Proof Of The Free Will Theorem" isn't really clickbait, but "What Celebrity X Did Next Will Make You Laugh, Cry and Orgasm all at the same time" does very well indeed)
Lowbrow celeb culture trash and political extremism was selling newspapers for decades before the internet.
If there's anything interesting it's the proportion of content political extremist organizations are sharing to win "likes" from relatively sane people that actually isn't political extremism, or even vaguely related to their agenda.
Lowbrow celeb culture trash and political extremism was selling newspapers for decades before the internet.
If there's anything interesting it's the proportion of content political extremist organizations are sharing to win "likes" from relatively sane people that actually isn't political extremism, or even vaguely related to their agenda.