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  "id": 2213351,
  "title": "Why social media algorithms send you posts you don't like",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/why-social-media-algorithms-send-you-posts-you-dont-like-2213351",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-20T19:40:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-social-media-algorithms-dont.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Do your social media accounts feed you content that reflects your core beliefs and guiding principles? Our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the algorithms supplying your feeds may be prioritizing content that clashes with your values. That's because the algorithms heavily weigh online posts that you reply to, and social media users tend to…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Conversation",
        "title": "Why social media algorithms send you posts you don’t like",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/why-social-media-algorithms-send-you-posts-you-dont-like",
        "published": "2026-08-20T12:38:52.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}