Obama tells Letterman how algorithms undermined political promise of social media
January 17, 2018 at 15:16 PM EST
Appearing as a guest on David Letterman’s new interview series on Netflix, President Barack Obama offered an example from the Arab Spring era to demonstrate how algorithms play a potentially harmful part in driving the content we’re served by social media and search engines, leaving some consumers particularly susceptible to fake news and propaganda or, ar minimum, a less than comprehensive views of current events