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

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Mar 21, 202328:56Education

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 joi...

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Social Media Algorithms: How You’re Curating a Biased News Feed is an episode from Economics Amplified by UChicago Economics Events and Conversations. Social media behaviors, moving at an ever faster pace, may not reflect what users really...

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Published Mar 21, 2023, 28:56 long, audio available.

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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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