Did The Feed Ruin Taste?

Georgia talks to New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka about the state of personal taste on our algorithmic feeds. When popularity reigns supreme and it feels like everything is an ad online, how do we trust our own personal taste? 

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Did The Feed Ruin Taste?

• Wired - Geese’s popularity is a psyop
• Vulture - The entire feed is fake 

Find Kyle:

• His column Infinite Scroll in The New Yorker
• Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
• Bluesky

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

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