What is a filter bubble or an echo chamber? Find out how algorithms reinforce your views and maybe your prejudices.

One could be forgiven for thinking 2017 was The Year of the Filter Bubble. While Eli Pariser introduced the world to the term half a decade ago, this was the year it seemed to really take off. You ...

Customized results from search engines and social media that are geared to the individual based on that person's past preferences. A filter bubble means two people searching for the same thing receive ...

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The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with. This weekly roundup offers the highlights of what you might ...

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 ...

Over the years, Google has greatly increased the extent to which it tailors results to the user, with the aim of improving accuracy and relevance. While this can be helpful and convenient, many users ...

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 ...

U.S. lawmakers proposed new legislation last week that would require internet platforms to more or less lay bare the intellectual property that drives their business model – their algorithms. The ...

Recommendation algorithms can promote conspiracy theories creating misinformation filter bubbles for users. But bursting these bubbles is easier than expected, say researchers who have discovered how.