How TikTok and YouTube decide what you see next
Filter bubbles: how to break out of a video feed that shows one thing
Two friends use the same app, but their feeds show them very different worlds. This is called a filter bubble. How do you get out of one?
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When a feed keeps showing you one kind of thing, you live in a filter bubble. The writer Eli Pariser made the name known in his 2011 book, about what the web shows each of us.
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A bubble is comfortable from the inside, and you rarely see its wall. So who pushes back: the app, or you?
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