giving evidence to a parliamentary committee which is scrutinising planned legislation to regulate social media companies in the uk, she said that facebook�*s algorithms were having a direct impact on pushing individuals towards extremism. part of what is dangerous about groups is that we talk about sometimes this idea of is this an individual problem or is this a societal problem? one of the things that happens in aggregate is the algorithms take people who have very mainstream interests, and they push them towards extremist interests. you can be someone centre—left and you'll get pushed to radical left, you can be centre—right and get pushed to pushed to radical right. you be looking for healthy recipes and be pushed to anorexia content. they are examples on facebook�*s research of all this. one of the things that happens with groups and