Isn't this how all propaganda works? Algorithms are just the latest form, so are you against algorithms and propaganda or just against their use against anarchism?
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Ah... I wish I'd written this - it says so many things that I've been trying to get into words for years now, and it does it so clearly.
I'd add - only part of the problem is the algorithms. Or more precisely, the algorithms are a problem because of a more fundamental problem, and one that has been a problem all along - the fact that all too many people are unwilling or unable to even take the first step of forming their own ideas about anarchism, and instead just look for some authority to tell them what is required and what is prohibited. And then they turn around and insist to other people that this is required and that is prohibited, because this authority said so.
So it's not as if the algorithms and the influencers they promote are somehow hijacking people on their way to understanding anarchism. Rather, it's simply that a great many of the people who are interested in it haven't even taken the first necessary step toward understanding it, so are essentially looking for exactly what the algorithm supplies.
Which illustrates why one of my basic ideas about anarchism is that it is, first and foremost, a way of thinking. The system will never be able to come into being until enough people can and do think in ways that facilitate it.
But once enough people do think in those ways, it will not only be possible, but inevitable.
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