S2/E9: Politicaltucky Pt. 3: The Algorithm Didn't Elect Him, You Did

Welcome to the long awaited finale of Politicaltucky! The votes are counted. The algorithm discourse has already started, and I want to address it carefully because there are two very different claims getting flattened into one. Can social media algorithms influence political behaviour? Yes, demonstrably, and there's good research on this. Can they secretly flip millions of votes without any detectable trace in the underlying data? That's a completely different question, and conflating the two makes honest post-election analysis nearly impossible. Today we're separating election infrastructure from social media infrastructure with a journey into a dataset that changed the direction of this finale considerably.

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