A Strategy to Confound the Algo: Is This Viable?? Copied this from a comment section on an article. Would something like this work? Or backfire? "I work in predictive analytics. You'd be surprised how much your clicks, response timing, thumb votes etc are logged, analyzed, quantified and used for sales, story selection etc. If you REALLY want to mess with the Main Stream Media take 3-5 days each month and thumb down what you agree with (and vice versa) click on stories you'd never look at, answer any poll or survey in the opposite manner and create data chaos wherever possible. Enough people do that 10-20% of the time and all but the most sophisticated algorithms will start to fall apart."  Alright, to be thorough here is the link to the article. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/fighting-misinformation-online-is-easier-than-people-think-steve-ballmer-113050963.html