If I needed proof of how “algorithms” work, this is it: lately I discovered that Italian PM Georgia Meloni’s speeches and interviews are perfectly easy for me to follow with my limited Italian. I’m no fan of Italy’s hard right PM, but something about her speaking style—deliberate, clear, without regional accent—makes it good for practising Italian. Well, I soon found video clips of Marine LePen popping up in my feed! Apparently the “algorithm” inferred that I liked right wing female European leaders. It couldn’t be more wrong! Blame it on the medieval Arab mathematician Al Khwarizmi after whom Algorithm is named. Both these ladies are happy to blame Arabs for everything, anyway.
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