'It’s possible to tweak algorithms in such a way that dissident information exists online, but nobody ever sees it. ...Whoever controls the narrative
controls the world. ...Silicon Valley
algorithm manipulation has already become one of the most consequential
forms of narrative control.'
By Caitlin Johnstone: Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience with being throttled into invisibility by Silicon Valley algorithmic suppression that will ring all too familiar for any online content creators who’ve been sufficiently critical of official western narratives over the last few years.
“My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares,” Cook writes. “Then, as the algorithms tightened, it became thousands. Now, as they throttle me further, shares can often be counted in the hundreds. ‘Going viral’ is a distant memory.”