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I'm very bored of "don't be scared of algorithms, 1 + 1 is an algorithm" and similar. Some people really cling to this for some reason.

The now-dominant use of 'algorithm' means "selection of posts on a social media network using an engagement-tracking process". If you insist that it always means something else then all you will do is misunderstand 99% of sentences that now include the word.