From Information Sharing to Manipulation and Consent Violation: the Insidious Rulership of the Modern Algorithm

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I don’t remember much about algorithms from my Algebra II class in high school. My neighbor worked for the power company as an engineer and tutored me in the pattern and math behind it. I knew just enough to pass my class with a B. I don’t think, back in 1993, that we even discussed how algorithms were…