Even if we grant them the benefit of doubt, it certainly isn't an accident to keep using the same algorithm once you know its consequences. There's been hand-w

Even if we grant them the benefit of doubt, it certainly isn't an accident to keep using the same algorithm once you know its consequences. There's been hand-wringing about Youtube funnelling users to extremist content, and it always comes to down to "the algorithm" as if there's nothing that can be done about it. Someone had to choose to implement the algorithm. Someone had to choose the metrics it was optimized to meet. Someone had to go, "Children are being drawn to extremist videos after watching PewDiePie and that's okay."