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Operation Echo Chamber: How Algorithms Are Becoming Intelligence Actors
Season 1
Episode 15
Published 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Description
What began as convenience has evolved into covert capability. This deep dive explores how recommendation systems—once designed to ease cognitive load—have quietly matured into powerful intelligence actors. By collecting behavior trajectories and analyzing sentiment at scale, algorithms can now detect societal unrest, fuel disinformation, and even function as tools of modern espionage. The question isn’t just what these systems know—but how they’re being used, and by whom.