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REVIEW: Mood Machine – The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist (Liz Pelly) Looking through algorithmic social media feeds today, a user is met with a whiplash-inducing barrage of ads, influencer garbage, and other clickbait content. It can be stressful and overwhelming. Perusing search results, too, it can be hard to tell what’s trustworthy or reputable—to comprehend how you even came to be looking at a certain photo, video, or text. On news sites it can be hard to decipher sponsored content from an editorial. The internet has long stopped feeling like a town square—it feels like a shopping mall. And streaming services are part of that shopping mall, even if their sleek interfaces don’t currently frame it that way. Liz Pelly ‘Mood Machine’ : readwriterespond.com

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