AXIOS (Erica Pandey) - Clean your feed: Dodge TikTok's powerful algorithm
Your social media feed is designed to keep you scrolling. Most platforms rely on black-box algorithms to study what captures your attention and drum up more of it. - What keeps your attention? Typically content that makes you laugh, cry or rage — because that keeps you locked in. Your brain is exhausted from hours of high-octane content. And with the advent of AI , it's getting harder and harder for all of us to tell the difference between truth and fiction. - Platforms don't make it easy to sidestep their algorithms. But if you're committed to keeping the apps, you can get much closer to the experience you actually want. - That might mean seeing more posts from friends, family and trusted news sources, and fewer random…
Your social media feed is designed to keep you scrolling. Most platforms rely on black-box algorithms to study what captures your attention and drum up more of it. - What keeps your attention? Typically content that makes you laugh, cry or rage — because that keeps you locked in. Your brain is exhausted from hours of high-octane content. And with the advent of AI , it's getting harder and harder for all of us to tell the difference between truth and fiction. - Platforms don't make it easy to sidestep their algorithms. But if you're committed to keeping the apps, you can get much closer to the experience you actually want. - That might mean seeing more posts from friends, family and trusted news sources, and fewer random…Open