[A]lgorithms have learned that users interested in politics respond more
if they're provoked more, so they provoke. Nobody programmed the
behavior into the algorithm; it made a correct observation about human
nature and acted on it.
Whoever controls the algorithms has great power.
Orwell imagined a world in which the state could shamelessly rewrite the
past. The Internet has taught us that people are happy to do this work
themselves.
Security is only achievable when the people in charge decide it matters.