✌🏼The Anger Algorithm

And How You Can Change It!

Have you seen the documentary The Social Dilemma? It essentially is a bunch of experts revealing that social networking is having a dangerous impact on society as big tech manipulates us for profit. Shocking, right?

Lawmakers have been unsuccessfully trying to figure out how social media might be influencing public opinion - either on purpose or simply by default. While the government trying to fix social media sounds like the blind leading the blind, that’s not what this post is about.

The hoopla is all about the algorithms that are used. If that’s not a familiar term, here’s the definition:

Algorithm: (noun) a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.

While I have a computer programming background, there’s a lot about algorithms that can be hard to understand. It …