Social media manipulation is an interesting topic. Very relevant to memo.
“This is not a reflection of what we want tending topics to be” - Del Harvey VP, Trust & Safety, Twitter
If a platform wants to curate trending topics that’s fine but it shouldn’t then pretend like those topics represent trending free & open dialogue.
Ignoring what is actually trending is hurting SV companies (eg YT rewind was most disliked video ever, Netflix ignoring their algorithms).
