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How algorithms manipulate you (and how to fight back)
Focus: Agents for Everyone
Date: July 7, 2026
Duration: 9:35
Evidence: Practitioner Analysis
Availability: Not Applicable
Summary: Jen Golbeck and Shalini Kantayya discuss how recommender systems shape attention and behavior, why optimization goals and data practices remain opaque, and what individuals, institutions and policymakers can do. The complete TED conversation is substantive analysis rather than a tutorial; its July release date is preserved as an age advisory.
Why it matters: The conversation helps readers distinguish personal mitigation from institutional accountability, ask what an algorithm optimizes, and identify where transparency, audit access or policy changes matter more than individual settings.
Source: TED