reads like a great parable to be written afterwards: the algorithms, successful 99.8% of the time, misfired on a US presidential candidate, who went on to lead

reads like a great parable to be written afterwards: the algorithms, successful 99.8% of the time, misfired on a US presidential candidate, who went on to lead the eventually successful efforts to break up Google, neutering its algorithms' effects upon the world. the algorithms giveth; the algorithms taketh away