"The Algorithm Is Not Neutral — It Has Owners and Incentives"
PierceLilholt · x · 2026-10-11
Pierce Lilholt's punchy one-liner: the algorithm is not neutral. It has owners, it has incentives, and it has a preferred kind of idiot — a sharp reminder that recommendation systems encode the interests of those who run them.
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