HardModern
"I decide what you see without asking. I know your preferences better than you do. I am invisible yet I shape your opinions. What am I?"
Answer
An Algorithm
Explanation
Social media and search algorithms curate what content you see based on your past behaviour. They can predict preferences with startling accuracy. They are entirely invisible yet profoundly shape what information you encounter.
This is a hard riddle in the Modern category — Riddles with a contemporary, technology-age twist.
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