{"id":1034325,"date":"2026-09-10T08:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034325"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:12:47","slug":"amusing-or-addictive-the-algorithms-powering-our-social-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/10\/amusing-or-addictive-the-algorithms-powering-our-social-feeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Amusing or addictive? The algorithms powering our social feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media algorithms are a powerful feature of online life, serving up content to users based on their browsing habits or personal data. <\/p>\n<p>Australia could soon give citizens the choice to opt out of them under new legislation that also threatens big tech companies with fines if they fail to protect young users from harmful content. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what algorithms do, and the arguments around their effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media algorithms are a powerful feature of online life, serving up content to users based on their browsing habits or personal data. Australia could soon give citizens the choice to opt out of them under new legislation that also threatens big tech companies with fines if they fail to protect young users from harmful content. Here&#8217;s what algorithms do, and the arguments around their effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034352,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034325\/revisions\/1034352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}