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comment by veen
veen  ·  2297 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Social and media will split

It starts out by asking you to pick the topics and newspapers/magazines that you already like. This is my selection, for example:

It then improves the suggestions based on what you read and the articles that you "heart" (their version of likes). I've taught it to feed me the articles from a magazine that would otherwise cost me €15/mo. It does pick out the best articles, but they're not always the objectively popular one. I told it that I liked my home town's local newspaper, so every once in a while I get an article from them (even though I'm probably one of the five people who use that app to read that newspaper).