How Pinterest Built One of Silicon Valley’s Most Successful Algorithms

Inside the company’s powerful recommendations tool — and its efforts to avoid the scandals facing its rivals

Will Oremus
OneZero
Published in
12 min readOct 14, 2019

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Illustration: Jordan Speer

LLike most social networks, Pinterest was built on assumptions and biases. Unlike most social networks, Pinterest admits it.

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