Want To Fight Back Against Facebook’s Algorithm? Check Out These Tools

Across the web, #deletefacebook is trending–but another form of user dissent is as well. The work of researchers, designers, and artists interrogating the social media giant is reaching a new audience intent on understanding and influencing their own digital footprints. Their work, which includes apps, Chrome extensions, and desktop software, aims to give users some agency over their online lives. These tools are not a silver bullet for users’ problems in the least, and it’s worth installing any extension or app with caution. But they show us an emerging genre of research and design that experiments with the massive, infamously opaque platform–nudging, warping, or poking Facebook’s powerful algorithms in independent ways.