Calling it an amplifying algorithm is an insult to the term - literally a sort by most recent or appending to the bottom of a text file primitives posting would favor flame wars as "engagement". The rhetoric of sinister algorithims has been passed around a lot by propaganda "documentaryists" but really with even a bit of knowledge knows trying to cast a correlation algorithim as a singularity in a box master manipulator is absurd. What is next? Putting the wind on trial for billions of sexual assault charges because of all of the skirts it blew up without their consent?