The Stereotypes Of Pro-Filter

hese filters is that you think you are getting a representative view of the world and you are really, really not, and you don’t know it,” he explains. “Some of these problems that our fellow citizens are having kind of disappear from view without our really even realising.”

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Pariser was warning about the filter bubble half a decade ago; more recently he turned his attention to an even more hot-button topic – “fake news”.

Throughout the campaign, a slew of fabricated articles tapped into the prejudices of pro-Trump or pro-Clinton Facebook users by making up stories they wanted to believe. Filter bubbles may not have caused fake news, but they incubated them and helped