multilingual_s 's review for:

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

4.0

funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

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This reminded me a lot of 'the chaos machine', but it felt less drastic in the depiction of the damage that algorithmic recommender systems have done. I was even a bit confused how the author could criticize them while still being adamant about always using air BNB when traveling and going to places that suffer from over-tourism. But generally it was a nice fluffy book with some inspiration on how to reduce the addiction to social media and build cultures outside of it.