We partnered with our friends at WIRED to bring you a special episode of their podcast Gadget Lab.

For this episode of Gadget Lab, the team takes a look at recommendation algorithms.

The modern internet is powered by recommendation algorithms. But some of these algorithms can lead to some weird places, occasionally taking users down dark internet rabbit holes or showing harmful content.

Lawmakers and researchers have criticized recommendation systems before, but these methods are under renewed scrutiny now that Google and Twitter are going before the US Supreme Court to defend their algorithmic practices.

We hear how recommendation algorithms work, how they're studied, and how they can be both abused and restrained.

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