If you use the internet, you’ve probably heard of a filter bubble. Internet sites and social media platforms use algorithms that show you content based on your previous interactions, likes, and shares ...
We know that Republicans and Democrats for the most part don’t play nice with each other on social media, but a new study by Harvard researchers shows that they don’t even like living near each other ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An executive from Chinese social media giant ByteDance played down the role of its content-recommendation algorithms in creating ...
Facebook's algorithm sucks, and Congress wants to do something about it. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing forward what it's titled the "Filter Bubble Transparency Act." Axios got a copy of ...
Social media and other online information sources are charged with creating "filter bubbles": sheltered clusters of people with similar views, which foster polarized opinions and partisan zeal, ...
There’s something broken about much of social media. While the number of users increases at an astronomical rate, and there’s no denying its power when it comes to disseminating messages and ...
Eli Pariser is no enemy of the Internet. The 30-year-old online organizer is the former executive director and now board president of the online liberal political group MoveOn.org. But while Pariser ...
One common response to objections about social media platforms' speech restrictions—whether on speech about people's gender identity, about the possibility of COVID leaking from a lab, and more—is: ...