Krishnan: Twitter Algorithms Easily Injected Cultural Bias Into Mainstream News Cycles
Sriram Krishnan · No Priors Ep. 125 | With Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan · Jul 31, 2025 · at 11:03
Former Twitter product leader and White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan reflects on how social media platform algorithms were curated to shape cultural narratives.
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“One of the things I saw when I was at Twitter was how easily you could inject cultural bias in your algorithms. I have so many stories about how if you pick the right kind of Twitter accounts, which then feed into the trending algorithm, which then feed into Twitter moments, and then with every journalist or editor will wake up. And next thing you know, it's like one of the news stories off the land and Buzzfeed will write a piece saying, People on the internet are talking about this. I saw this over and over again, and it left me this profound appreciation of how algorithms can shape culture.”
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