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Managing the Feed — Government Overreach and the Quiet War for What You Believe, the Social Media Platform Boost
Send us Fan MailRight now there's a document open on the UK government's website with a name so boring your eyes slide straight off it: "Watch this Space: A new strategic direction for UK media." That drowsiness you just felt? That's the weapon.Buried inside is a proposal to make social media platforms boost "trusted" news sources to the top of your feed — which, in a feed with only so much room, means pushing everything else down to page nine, where nobody scrolls. Nothing's banned. Nobody's arrested. It's just a tweak to an algorithm, for your own protection. BBC propaganda pushed on social…
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