Agreed, but Microsoft is the type to use AI to run manipulation campaigns. I remember them using NVIDIA Teslas for AI back in 2015 and loading Reddit big data to manipulate social media and counter negative news about them.

Seems like the typical Musk-suppression filters could be readjusted.

Isn't there some board for out there conspiracies?

Netflix gets paid to promote content? That doesn't make sense. They buy or license content, and their incentive is to get you to like what they have to offer in order for you to keep paying them a subscription fee. Why would they pay someone for content, only to have them then pay them to promote the content?

Spotify does this too (paid recommendations).

"Help me find things I like" is basically a mandatory requirement for anything whose catalog is too large to search exhaustively — otherwise there's no point to them.

Doing this well seems to be surprisingly difficult for everyone. Facebook has shown me local news in Florida even though I'm British, live in Berlin, and have not even visited that state. Twitter thought I was interested in baseball, when I don't care for any spectator sports. YouTube is mostly OK for the long form content, but the shorts are 98% useless, and the adverts are… well, the current ad for me in the app is "Click this video = $1000" ad by "Beast Promo" with a cartoon that looks like MrBeast, which absolutely screams "scam", and last week it was something that looked like an anti-LGBT conspiracy theorist but my German isn't good enough to be totally sure.

Netflix, Disney, and all the rest? IMO Netflix is the best of them, but still not really all that amazing — the bar it passes that the rest fail is excessive focus on their own content.

Maybe but it’s in their best interest to keep me watching… surfing and leaving without watching should be a very strong sign that something is amiss

Can you blame them? These companies can steal money from you and pretty much anything else and people will keep using them. Doesn't matter what they do really if there are no major consequences.

These aren't even the real pain points. Most people using Medium aren't using it to discover new content. The CEO clearly has no clue what they are doing.

What kind of impact? Yahoo unfortunately has a lot of impact from their news service. It is crap news IMO but a lot of people are into clickbait.

I get scam calls based on being a previous Xfinity customer and Xfinity got their database hacked and never disclosed the breach. I even had one of those email alias services with a unique Xfinity email address to prove it and Xfinity just ignored the reports.

Agreed. Probably worse than Teams is Azure, Windows, etc. While things have changed Microsoft would give grief to developers that wanted to run Linux and that was really into open source.