General Discussion

It's been around for centuries, and has been much used in computer programming for decades. But, and I can see from your posts that this will come as a shock to you, it has been talked about rather a lot outside computing circles for a few years now, to describe how large websites, especially social media, feed suggestions for what you could read or watch not on an impartial "what is the most common thing on this platform?" basis, but on what gets most profit for the owners.

I know, I can see you're stunned that your idea that TikTok "gives more insight than other social media platforms" might be based on a naive supposition that what you're watching there is "detailed thoughts", rather than clickbait designed either for immediate profit, or to benefit the political feelings of its billionaire owners who just paid Trump a few billion to get to control it.