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The ALgorithms EXposed (ALEX) project aims to reveal how personalization algorithms on social media platforms operate, using Facebook as a case study. It focuses on empowering users through data activism and developing tools for monitoring algorithmic impacts.
Personalization algorithms—filtering content on the basis of someone's profile—increasingly mediate the web experience of users.
By forging a specific reality for each individual, they silently shape customized 'information diets': in other words, they determine which news, opinions and rumors users are exposed to.
Restricting users’ possibilities, they ultimately infringe on their agency.
As exposed by the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, they are supported by questionable data sharing pract…
UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
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