May 20
Undoing Platform Capture: Discovery Must Be Separated from Ranking
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 21, 2026, 17:35 PHST One of the most consequential design decisions in the modern internet was the quiet fusion of discovery and ranking into a single, opaque process. What began as a way to help users find information evolved into a system that determines which information survives. This essay advances…