If you opened Facebook‚ Twitter or Instagram about a decade ago‚ you'd likely see posts from friends and family‚ in chronological order. Nowadays‚ users are hit with a barrage of content curated by an algorithm. Passionate about plants? Sports? Cats? Politics? That's what you're going to see. "[There] are equations that measure what you're doing‚ surveille the data of all the users on these platforms‚ and then try to predict what each person is most likely to engage with‚" New Yorker...