The Harm of an Algorithm

Part 3 of "Leaving Social Media?" series

Francesca Woodman, Space², Providence, Rhode Island (1976)

Algorithmic Bias is a phenomenon that occurs when an algorithm produces results that are systemically prejudiced due to erroneous assumptions in the machine learning process” (Mary K. Pratt)

In the early days of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, the majority of the content you would see would be f…