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How Politics Can Be Warped By Algorithms

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“Once the claws are in you through social media—it starts dragging down the whole democracy with it.”

The journalist Eliot Higgins speaks with Charlie Warzel about how algorithmic incentives can affect how people make political decisions. Listen to the episode:

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