Insights / Podcast episodeMar 21, 2023

Social Media Algorithms: How You’re Curating a Biased News Feed

Social media behaviors, moving at an ever faster pace, may not reflect what users really want, according to new research from economists Sendhil Mullainathan (Chicago Booth) and Amanda Agan (Rutgers University). They join The Pie to discuss how algorithms feed off our lizard brains to magnify biases.

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