Social Media Algorithms: How TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Decide What You See (and How to Take Back Control)
Ever wonder why your feed feels oddly personal—like it knows you better than your friends do? That isn’t luck. It’s design. On TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, powerful recommendation algorithms decide which posts, videos, and ads appear and which get buried. They can nudge what you watch, what you buy, even how you think. This isn’t…