Is Medium’s Algorithm Implicitly Biased or More To The Point, Culturally Relativist?
Some questions need to be asked….
This is an article that I have wanted to write for a very long time, but hadn’t done so for a lack of testicular fortitude. But reading Dr. Mehmet Yildiz’s experience with the medium survey, allied to going through the exact same thing, too, has somewhat emboldened me.
Reading Ev Williams’ article, yesterday, announcing Mariam Naficy’s appointment to the Board of directors, while burnishing the social justice credentials of the other board members such as Colin Kaepernick and Biz Stone, you are left with the distinction that all is well with the medium world, in the aftermath of its recent restructuring
But is it?
Even though I have had a decent number of articles curated on this platform on different subjects and I was sent an email stating that I am a top writer in politics and economics, there’s the lingering impression that besides the opacity behind the stories which are thrust to the forefront of the platform, if you aren’t of a certain demographic, there’s a limit to how much exposure you get on your articles.
You take two articles on the same subject, one written by a white female and the other by a Black male with a foreign sounding name and I guarantee you…