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Algorithms: what if we took back control?

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Algorithms: what if we took back control?

On 2026-06-06

Today, our digital lives are dictated by opaque “recommendation algorithms” that dominate artificial intelligence and social media. Designed by tech giants to serve private interests, they often foster polarization, misinformation, the rise of extremism, and seriously harm mental health. Faced with this reality, a technological resistance is organizing. Citizens and researchers are developing alternatives based on the common good, transparency, and collective intelligence.

Here are three examples :

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