Lead banner: The allegory of the cave is an apt metaphor for the usefulness of hallucinated research findings There is an invisible reader of every article, whose gaze counts for far more than 1 view, 1 read, or 1 “like.” That reader is, of course, the algorithm. Between search engines’ page-ranking algorithms and the algorithmic feeds of […]
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Facebook connects you, your friends, and your community. In exchange, it serves you advertisements it believes will be of interest to you based on your activities on the platform. It’s a common, lucrative business model — and most of the time, users are happy with the trade. Occasionally, however, there’s a public outcry, usually in […]
