Are algorithms going to choose our party leaders, too? Let’s just hope those algorithms do a slightly better job of selecting our political leaders than our Spotify playlists (because otherwise… it’s going to be Nickelback, all the way…) Raphael Vassallo 29 July 2021, 7:10am Interestingly enough, it was almost exactly a year ago – on July 20, 2020 – that MaltaToday published its now-infamous ‘Rate the Minister’ survey: you know, the one predicting how the Nationalist Party, under Adrian Delia, might lose the next election by ‘more than 72,000 votes’… … thereby precipitated a full-blown crisis within the PN administration: which culminated, just two months later, in a change of party leadership, etc. etc.