FRESH IDEAS: The ‘Filter Bubble’ of Facebook

From Farhad Manjoo, in The New York Times: "Scholars and critics have been warning of the solipsistic irresistibility of algorithmic news at least since 2001, when the constitutional-law professor Cass R. Sunstein warned, in his book 'Republic.com,' of the urgent risks posed to democracy 'by any situation in which thousands or perhaps millions or even tens of millions of people are mainly listening to louder echoes of their own voices.'

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“(In 2008, I piled on with my own book, ‘True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.’) In 2011, the digital activist and entrepreneur Eli Pariser, looking at similar issues, gave this phenomenon a memorable name in the title of his own book: ‘The Filter Bubble.’”

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