How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka

/ The author of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture discusses how we might be able to cultivate our own tastes once more.

By Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast.

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Today, I’m talking to Kyle Chayka, a staff writer for The New Yorker, a regular contributor to The Verge, and author of the new book Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Kyle has been writing for years now about how the culture of big social media platforms bleeds into real life, first affecting how things look, and now shaping how and what culture is created and the

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