Lots of studies show that The Algorithm has a right wing bias. They tend to discuss their findings in faux-neutral language, like "filter bubbles" or "partisanship." Instead of thinking of politics as differences of degree along a one-dimensional spectrum, a self-limiting and unproductive framework, let's compare the substance of the right's politics to the design of social media.
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