alt Hacker NewsGoogle maps is doing the same thing to local business success that social media algorithms are doing to political success. The algorithm controls what you perceive as the consensus of others. It is a dangerous world to have such power so highly concentrated.
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websiteapi • last Wednesday at 11:27 PM
How exactly would you fix this? Seems no different than any arbitrary person or groups ranking.
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Perhaps such things should be controlled democratically instead of by a single person or a small group of people whose companies are organized as dictatorships.