survivorship bias and the algorithmic gaze

you can't see what you can't see

survivorship bias and the algorithmic gaze you can't see what you can't see Adam Aleksic Mar 03, 2025 384 13 42 Share While scrolling on X yesterday, I came across an incredibly unsettling exchange between two users in my feed. “Paying for this app means you are funding free speech,” the first person tweets. “Cisgender,” the other replies. Above it, an automatically generated warning from the app: “Visibility limited,” it reads. “This post may violate X’s rules against Hateful Conduct.” To find the second user’s rebuttal, I had to scroll past every other comment in the thread and click an inco

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