this is a very cogent point. algorithims act as a layer of abstraction and somehow gives people an escape for moral culpability. i wonder what facebooks algorithms would have done during US slavery, in nazi germany, during the apartheid, or any other (countless) horriffic human event?
no doubt we will hoist pitchforks at tiktok for being authoritarian chinese and neglect our own senseless populism.
no doubt we will hoist pitchforks at tiktok for being authoritarian chinese and neglect our own senseless populism.