The number of people globally who initially access news through a website or app has dropped by 10 points since 2018, and younger groups prefer to access news through social media, search or mobile aggregators, according to a report released on Tuesday.
The problem is always, how do you know when you aren’t fed the wrong thing? The algorithm is a black box. What if one day they they subtly altered it to favour specific viewpoints or similar? Or to hide some other event, or viewpoint, or whatever?
This applies to all media, of course, but I think it’s especially vulnerable when it comes to a social media algorithm like this.