Algorithms of Trauma 2. How Facebook Feeds on Your Fears

Worried about your health? Facebook won’t let you forget.

Facebook competes for users’ attention by exploiting its knowledge of their anxieties and weaknesses, and the buttons which are supposed to hide unwanted content do not work as they promise. A new study by the Panoptykon Foundation led by Piotr Sapieżyński, PhD, of Northeastern University (Boston) has been released.