IT'S THE ALGORITHM STUPID! HOW FACEBOOK FAILED US
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
What started out as a pleasant view of Aunt Sally's summer vacation ends up with a bloody police officer on the floor of the US Capitol and a democracy in flames. We can expect the social media companies themselves, just like the tobacco companies, to do everything they can to fight the release or regulation of their “secret formulas.” Also, is it OK to follow Sinema into the bathroom to protest?
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| 0:46.9 | Well, Happy International Teachers Day, and it's the algorithm stupid. |
| 0:53.5 | Francis Hogan has been testifying before Congress, and it's a pretty shocking picture. |
| 0:57.8 | She's painting of Facebook. We'll get into that in just a moment. |
| 1:02.2 | I've got a rant about that that we published today at Harbin Report titled, |
| 1:05.1 | it's the algorithm stupid about how what started out as a pleasant view of Aunt Sally's summer vacation |
| 1:11.2 | ends up with a bloody police officer on the floor of the U.S. capital and democracy and flames. |
| 1:17.4 | Also, I want to get into the question, is it okay to follow, |
| 1:21.1 | in this case, Kirsten's cinema, but really any politician into the bathroom to ask them questions |
| 1:29.3 | because they're refusing to hold town halls, they're refusing to meet with constituents, |
| 1:33.1 | they're refusing to take, you know, where are the lines here and your thoughts on that? |
| 1:38.4 | But I want to start out with the algorithm and basically my story of the story that Francis Hogan |
| 1:47.3 | has been telling to Congress. And let me start with the difference between cocaine and crack cocaine. |
| 1:55.2 | You can actually online buy coca leaf to make tea out of. |
| 2:00.1 | All right, there's a little tiny bit of cocaine in it. They've, you know, in South America, |
| 2:05.2 | in the Andes, in the mountains of South America, they've been chewing coca leaf and making coca tea |
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