Much of the information you consume on the internet is filtered. For example, Google and Facebook have algorithms that attempt to figure out what things you like and are most likely to click on. This affects the sorts of search results and newsfeed items you see.
If we’re only served up stuff we like, could it mean that the internet increasingly massages our ideological and other biases, rather than challenging them? It is interesting to consider.
Source: Science of Us, April 28, 2017.
In the case of the most plugged-in news consumers, it’s worrisome to imagine what happens when their propensity for pro-attitudinal content is constantly reinforced by Facebook and Google and Twitter and their network of ideologically like-minded friends. The way we’re siloing ourselves is not good.
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