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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Part VI of @kkomaitis.bsky.social series on "the metric is not the mission." This one is on how the data big tech collects about us makes them think they know us, when it just shows how little they know.

Techdirt@techdirt.com

The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Illusion Of Knowing Us The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-the-illusion-of-knowing-us/

techdirt.comThe Metric Is Not The Mission: The Illusion Of Knowing UsThe Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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Jim Teeth
@drjamesjteeth.bsky.social

I remember when I was a regular Facebook user and it would constantly get my religion wrong. Even now You Tube gets it wrong consistently even though my watch history clearly demonstrates a preference. My religious affiliation is complicated, but there is a clear preference.