Enraged Engagement (Part Deux)
My last post described what I referred to as the Enraged Engagement of America , which focused on the role of Cable TV News in the polarization of our country. Today, we will see how social media companies are adding gasoline to this fire - the fire that Fox News and MSNBC have already started. As you may have seen in the recent Netflix production " The Social Dilemma ," the technologies and business models used by Facebook and Twitter are fueling the most extreme polarization that our country has seen since the Civil War, and we have yet to experience the full impact. It All Starts with a Suggestion to Watch a Movie Many of my readers are undoubtedly familiar with Netflix's uncanny ability to recommend movies to you that you'll actually enjoy. The technology powering the Netflix recommender system is called collaborative filtering and it is one of the reasons that the company now has a market cap of $212B. Netflix's Movie Recommendatio...