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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka
Description: Today, I’m talking to Kyle Chayka, a staff writer for The New Yorker, a regular contributor to The Verge, and author of the new book Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Kyle has been writing for years now about how the culture of big social media platforms bleeds into real life, first affecting how things look, and now shaping how and what culture is created and the mechanisms by which that culture spreads all around the world. If you’ve been listening to Decoder, this is all going to sound very familiar. The core thesi...