Foer’s central thesis is that algorithms have the potential to strip us of our free will.

What are the mechanisms by which algorithms limit our ability to think for ourselves

Prompt
Foer’s central thesis is that algorithms have the potential to strip us of our free will. But
what are the mechanisms by which algorithms limit our ability to think for ourselves?
Foer brings up several answers to this question:
1)Facebook’s opacity, or lack of transparency
2)Facebook’s belief in the ultimate transparency in the user.
3)Data mining
4)The newsfeed
5)Facebook’s experiments.
For this assignment, I want you to find a quote for each of these answers that points to
how this
mechanism works. This quote should be idea-rich, and lend itself to a robust, fruitful
analysis.
Then, to analyze that quote to show exactly how this mechanism functions to limit our
free will.
Each of these analyses should be 75-100 words. You should analyze each of these
concepts, so
there should be 5 quotes, and somewhere between 375-500 words of original writing.
That’s five quotes – one for each mechanism, and five corresponding analyses.

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