The filter bubble is a name for an anxiety — the worry that our personalized interfaces to the Internet will end up telling us only what we want to hear, hiding everything unpleasant but important. It ...

Opinion: The ‘filter bubble’ effect damages the way users consume media online In today’s polarized political and social environment, 72% of the public uses some form of social media, according to the ...

Is your social media full of things you like and agree with? You might be in a "filter bubble." We discussed this online phenomenon with our social media expert, Dr. Jess Ghilani.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't think Facebook is trapping users in a bubble. There's a popular theory around social media called the "filter bubble." It's the idea that as users naturally subscribe and ...

The Filter Bubble: Another Web Conversation with SF Author/Futurist David Brin, Prof. Jane Bambauer, Prof. Mark Lemley, Prof. Ted Parson, and Me Please come by, Fri., Nov. 6, 2020, 1:30 to 3 pm.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is testing a new way to coax people out of their "filter bubble" where they tend to only see news articles that reinforce their personal beliefs. Now, before people read ...

Let’s stop lamenting and take action. Let’s stop pretending we can get rid of filter bubbles altogether if only we write enough hit pieces on this company or that CEO, and instead fix the filter.

Facebook says users, not its algorithm, are responsible for the so-called filter bubble. But Facebook’s own research says otherwise. New York Times writer Farhad Manjoo covered the study in a ...

According to data from Pew Research Center, about 4 in 10 young people regularly get news from TikTok. TikTok obviously isn’t the only filter bubble out there.