NPR. Hey Whalen, what's in your social media feed nowadays?

Well, on Facebook, it's mostly local news, like what the local moms are up to in my town.

On Tik-Tock, I'd say, Taylor Swift, this romance fantasy series I've gotten into and like

makeup tutorials.

I love the breadth here.

I'm not so much on Facebook or Instagram these days, but I do tend to get sucked into these like

YouTube rabbit holes, these kind of nerdy videos where drummers explain the drum parts

for songs.

Okay, so then like now that YouTube knows you like this,

they're like, how about this drummer?

How about this drummer?

Yes, click, click, click.

And I just live on YouTube now.

You know, even though it can feel like. just live on YouTube now.

You know, even though it can feel like the platform

is simply serving up what it thinks you want,

whether it's drummers or Taylor Swift,

there's no escaping the fact that your experience on social media is

filtered. Yeah, and whether you like that or not, it doesn't stop us from

collectively spending hours and hours on social media. And all this is why our feeds have become one of the latest battlegrounds

over First Amendment rights.

This is the indicator for Planet Money.

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