MIND WARS: Algorithms or Democracy
Immensely rich oligarchs tame algorithms to help spread far right ideas. In Silicon Valley they call this AI alignment. Like the newspapers and social media platforms they buy to defend their wealth from professional journalism algorithms extend this censorship to help tame social media. These white men seek to extend their wealth and power so they want to tame the world’s most successful algorithm, TikTok. Döpfner wants to be Europe’s Musk.