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Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead we're more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead we're being offered parallel but seperate universes.
— Jun 15, 2011 08:17PM
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Jeff Scott
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At its worst, the filter bubble confines us to our own information neighborhood, unable to see or explore the rest of the enormous world of possibilities that exist online. We need our online urban planners to strike a balance between relevance and serendipity, between the comfort of seeing friends and the exhilaration of meeting strangers, between cozy niches and wide open spaces
— Jun 20, 2011 08:39PM
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The filter bubble tends to dramatically amplify confirmation bias--in a way it's designed to. Consuming information that confirms to our ideas of the world is easy and pleasurable; consuming information that challenges us to think in new ways or question our assumptions is frustrating and difficult.
— Jun 18, 2011 10:19AM
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A spicy headline will win over a more trusted news source any day. "People don't make much of a distinction between the New York Times and some random blogger"...
— Jun 17, 2011 04:07PM
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#fridayreads Professional human editors are expensive, and code is cheap.
— Jun 17, 2011 07:07AM
