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 ...
Social media bubbles follow us around, and are not easy to pop. Credit: Mashable composite: Getty / Hill Street Studios / DigitalVisionGetty / SDI Productions / E+ Mashable’s series Algorithms ...
In their effort to help fix the filter bubble problem, developers of news app Read Across the Aisle took inspiration from an unlikely source: exercise trackers. Designed to help people diversify their ...
In the wake of the US election, concerns are surfacing over the filter bubbles that mediate the information people see in their social media feeds. Filter bubbles are formed by the algorithms social ...
In the wake of November’s election, the concept of the filter bubble is often discussed as if it’s a uniquely American reflection of a left/right that other countries are somehow immune to. Not so. In ...
One afternoon in mid-November, a university journalism professor confided in me a not-so-shocking secret: “I only found out today what ‘Versailles literature’ actually means.” China’s latest buzzword ...