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Under fire for promoting harmful content to vulnerable teens, TikTok has announced plans to make its recommendations more transparent The algorithms that resolve what we see after we log onto any given social media platform are notoriously opaque, and for probably the most part we allow them to guide our scrolling habits with little or no thought or intervention. Why is Twitter so insistent that I follow art history accounts with Roman bust profile pictures and dubious intentions? Why is Instagram’s Explore page so out-of-touch with my actual interests? Why does TikTok exclusively feed me videos of dogs making friends with unlikely animals? OK, that last one is smart – as for the...