Social media algorithms are ‘dangerous’: Walter Isaacson

'The Code Breaker' author and former CNN CEO Walter Isaacson sat down for Influencers with Andy Serwer to discuss the affects social media algoithims are having.

Video Transcript

WALTER ISAACSON: I think those are the dangerous things is the algorithms that spin us out of control and-- but, you know, just push us to be more and more extreme in our behavior. Even when I go on Facebook or Twitter or something, it's always recommending as soon as I read somebody of a particular political bent, it's trying to get me more outraged about somebody who has an even stronger opinion. Those type of things come when you have an advertising model with an algorithm that's based on what's called engagement but it really should be called enragement.