Rama to bloggers: Protest square, a studio to feed the algorithm

2026-06-20 11:57:54Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Rama to bloggers: Protest square, a studio to feed the algorithm

Prime Minister Rama stated at the parliamentary group meeting that politics and democracy are facing a new challenge created by the era of algorithms and social networks, where, according to him, protests no longer take place in squares, but in the digital space.

Rama said that today's protests need another "square", built for the algorithm, describing the television studio as the place where the content that feeds digital platforms is produced.

He argued that politics should be at the service of citizens, while the algorithm, according to him, favors strong emotions, anger, and immediate attention.

 "Today, protests do not take place in the square, but they need a square of some kind that protests the algorithm. The square is the television studio of the algorithm, it is the place where filming is done to feed the algorithm. They are built for people who vote, not for platforms that modernize the algorithm. This is today's challenge.

Politics should be at the service of the people, and the algorithm hates that. I'm afraid that even I, who am speaking, having been very attracted to the developments of that world for years, do not understand how big and monstrous this battle is.

Whoever goes and asks for a like, a follow, and anger is against his own children. If the 20th century produced the mass media society, the 21st century is producing the new class, the algorithmic proletariat, which is united by attention, not work; it is not production that unites, but the taste of consuming oneself and life that unites; it is the illusion that the more you are seen, the more authority you have.

Democracy has not replaced it with something else. Democracy today is facing the man who may never have built anything, who has no schooling. The authority is the one who bears the most responsibility, but the algorithm does not recognize responsibility. It does not ask who built it, it asks who stopped their finger on the screen.”


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