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Interviewing the algorithm: How reporting and reverse engineering could build a beat to understand the code that influences us Nick Diakopoulos explains why journalists needs to start thinking more ...

I outsourced several of my daily decisions to algorithms for a week, to better understand the lines of code playing a greater and greater role in guiding our lives.