Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
Wow this touches really deeply and closely - given I use social media all. the. time.<p>My love for the Web and freedom of discussion and how it would free us from the powers of authority. This was me imagining the future of information in the early 2000s.<p>I&#x27;m thinking this may very well be a lie: as Sasha so eloquently and comedically touches several points about how these social media giants (Facebook, Twitter etc) have developed algorithms to satisfy our most basic &quot;monkey brain&quot; instincts: we want information that is agreeable.<p>The comparison he made with &quot;fake scientists&quot; on the internet getting more attention than nobel prize winners really hit me hard.<p>The issue seems to be that with the internet we got rid of authority, but another type of hierarchy grew out of this: algorithm hierarchy. Where we don&#x27;t have authorities in charge of giving us information, rather we have algorithms.<p>An obvious solution to this (from a programmer&#x27;s point of view) would be to allow users to freely and openly (through an open source kind of movement) change these algorithms to fit their needs. For instance I want information that is &quot;not biased&quot; and I can quickly get the &quot;non biased algorithm&quot; from github (as an example) and plug it into my social media. If I want information from academica I would get the &quot;academia algorithm&quot; and plug in. And so on.<p>I don&#x27;t know how something like this can help, but it seems we may need to stop thinking in terms of social media companies being the problem; it&#x27;s the fact that we can&#x27;t change these algorithms that is the problem.