"The act of choosing a piece of culture to consume is a really powerful one," says writer Kyle Chayka. He's the author of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. If you opened Facebook, Twitter ...

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Twenty years ago, cultural curators were people who staked their reputations on what they championed. Today, the curator is an algorithm, and it’s reshaping culture at every level — what gets made, ...