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The Filter Bubble
Eli Pariser · 2011
"Pariser argued personalized feeds create an invisible, non-consensual filter — you don't choose what you don't see, the algorithm does — so two people can search the same term and inhabit different information worlds without knowing it."
In 2011 Pariser noticed his Facebook feed had quietly removed his conservative friends without him asking. The filter had edited his world and never announced the cut.
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