to a parliamentary committee. she told them her former employer is "unquestionably making hate worse". the algorithms take people who have very mainstream interests interests and they push them towards extreme interests. you can be someone center left and you will be pushed to radical left. you can be a center right and pushed to radical right. you can be looking for a healthy recipes, you'll get pushed to anorexia content. there are examples in facebook�*s research of all of this. one of the things that happens with groups and networks of groups is that people see echo chambers that create social norms, so if i'm in a group that has lots of covid misinformation and i see over and over again that if someone encourages people to get vaccinated, they get completely pounced upon. they get torn apart. i learn that certain ideas are acceptable and unacceptable.