the.com/filter bubble

The algorithm agrees with you so often, you mistake it for the world.

means A personalized information environment, shaped by algorithms and your own past clicks, that mostly shows you things you already agree with and quietly edits out the rest.

from A 21st-century coinage, popularized by internet activist Eli Pariser in his 2011 book of the same name. 'Filter' points to the sorting algorithms that curate your feed behind the scenes; 'bubble' borrows the old sense of an enclosed, fragile sphere separating you from outside air — here, from outside opinions. Pariser was describing how search engines and social platforms, trying to predict what you'd like, ended up narrowing what you'd ever see.

coined by
Eli Pariser, 2011 book
mechanism
personalization quietly curates what you never see
irony
feels like more information, delivers less diversity
fix
deliberately follow people who disagree with you
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