Tagblatt: "Google threatens democracy"
Algorithms affect our everyday live stronger and stronger, St. Galler Tagblatt wrote. Professor Dirk Helbing commented on that.
external pageThe article was published in St. Galler Tagblatt online in August 2015. It included comments of Professor Dirk Helbing.
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Google uses manipulation through personalized advertising, St. Galler Tagblatt online wrote. And it is an effective way how to do it: about 80 percent of Google's sales comes from personalized advertising."In many cases we don't even notice that we are manipulated," Professor of Computational Social Science at ETH Zurich Dirk Helbing commented.