66. The disappearance of Europe from the British public eye
The
biggest news this week, in global terms, was the announcement of the EU
recovery fund which I covered in post 63. A huge effort in economic terms but,
even more importantly, a rare exercise in cross border solidarity. However, despite
its seminal importance, it is practically impossible to find in UK news. The EU
is one of the subjects I read about the most. Tales of EU failure and woe often
feature prominently at the top of my digital news, selected by algorithms
which, day after day, try to build an understanding of my interests. But news
of this fund was number 43 in the list presented to me, well below items of
little importance which I have little interest in. This is peculiar. I am not
given to believing in conspiracies, I have trained myself to reject them as
oversimplistic explanations of haphazardly converging interests and motivations
and, again, I am confident there is no conspiracy here. But it is worth
studying. Big news should be big news, even if it is about the EU
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Difficult to understand how the algorithm is working, for sure