c. 2010 AD–c. 2018 AD
Algorithmically selected social feeds
Information & communication · Technology · Infrastructure
During the 2010s, many social platforms moved toward ranking and prioritizing content through programs using data about each user. This mechanism changed which messages could gain visibility and introduced issues of transparency, bias, and misinformation; algorithms do not eliminate choices by users, moderators, or human editors.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: duration of a process.
Sources
- www.pewresearch.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2018-11-16
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2024-04-14
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
The correspondence between this reference and individual claims has not yet been itemized.
This record is an editorial synthesis. Consult the sources to check claims and their limits. Chronological relationships alone do not establish causation.