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The inside story of how social media algorithms designed to connect us have been systematically tearing us apart. Insider testimony and whistleblower documents expose a machine built on outrage and division. Not as a side effect but as part of a business model. Radicalisation. Real world violence. Societies fractured. Consequences of a system built to shape how we think, feel and see the world.<br>View more
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E1: Inside the Rage Machine<br>How social media algorithms sow division, with real world consequences.17 Mar 202651 minTV-MA
Contributors<br>Director:<br>Rob Farquhar
Host:<br>Marianna Spring
Series Production Company<br>BBC
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