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> Now they are in a situation where they are damned if they do, damned if they don't. And people immersed in echo chambers will accuse them of bias no matter what.

What if they simply change the algorithm to perform some graph clustering/principal component analysis on the stories that are shared organically among groups and then inject let's say 10% stories that are disproportionally shared by other clusters, but not this one?

The granularity could be tweaked to chunk everything into let's say ~5 clusters per nationality and language.

The machines do not have to assess facts, they just have to allow people to see beyond their friend-horizon. So call it the bubble-burster.



Quite sensible. The more options the better




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