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Filter bubble, the Glossary

A filter bubble or ideological frame is a state of intellectual isolationTechnopedia,, Retrieved October 10, 2017, "....A filter bubble is the intellectual isolation, that can occur when websites make use of algorithms to selectively assume the information a user would want to see, and then give information to the user according to this assumption...^[1]

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Influence of mass media
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Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and colloquially as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

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Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is a research institution in Berlin.

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Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.

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Algorithmic attention rents

Algorithmic attention rents is a concept developed at University College London's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose in a series of three papers sponsored by the Omidyar Network, and based on earlier work by Tim O’Reilly. Filter bubble and Algorithmic attention rents are social influence and Sociology of technology.

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Algorithmic bias

Algorithmic bias describes systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create "unfair" outcomes, such as "privileging" one category over another in ways different from the intended function of the algorithm.

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Algorithmic curation

Algorithmic curation is the curation (organizing and maintaining a collection) of online media using recommendation algorithms and personalized searches. Filter bubble and Algorithmic curation are social influence.

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Algorithmic radicalization

Algorithmic radicalization is the concept that recommender algorithms on popular social media sites such as YouTube and Facebook drive users toward progressively more extreme content over time, leading to them developing radicalized extremist political views. Filter bubble and Algorithmic radicalization are internet manipulation and propaganda, media bias, social influence and Sociology of technology.

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Allegory of the cave

Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".

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Attention inequality

Attention inequality is the inequality of distribution of attention across users on social networks, people in general, and for scientific papers. Filter bubble and attention inequality are social influence.

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Balkanization

Balkanization or Balkanisation is the process involving the fragmentation of an area, country, or region into multiple smaller and hostile units.

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Barack Obama's farewell address

Barack Obama's farewell address was the final public speech of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, delivered on January 10, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. EST.

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Barney Frank

Barnett Frank (born March 31, 1940) is a former American politician.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Cambridge Analytica

Cambridge Analytica Ltd. (CA), previously known as SCL USA, was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state.

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City University of New York

The City University of New York (CUNY, spoken) is the public university system of New York City.

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Civil liberties

Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that governments commit not to abridge, either by constitution, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process.

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Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Communal reinforcement

Communal reinforcement is a social phenomenon in which a concept or idea is repeatedly asserted in a community, regardless of whether sufficient empirical evidence has been presented to support it.

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Confirmation bias

Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.

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Consumer

A consumer is a person or a group who intends to order, or use purchased goods, products, or services primarily for personal, social, family, household and similar needs, who is not directly related to entrepreneurial or business activities.

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Content farm

A content farm or content mill is a company that employs large numbers of freelance writers or uses automated tools to generate a large amount of textual web content which is specifically designed to satisfy algorithms for maximal retrieval by search engines, known as SEO (search engine optimization).

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Craigslist

Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is a privately held American company operating a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community service, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.

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Daily Kos

Daily Kos is a group blog and internet forum focused on the U.S. Democratic Party and progressive liberal American politics.

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Daily Me

Daily Me is a term that describes a virtual daily newspaper customized for an individual's tastes.

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Dead Internet theory

The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation to intentionally manipulate the population and minimize organic human activity. Filter bubble and dead Internet theory are internet manipulation and propaganda, mass media issues and social influence.

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Democracy

Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.

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Deradicalization

Deradicalization refers to a process of encouraging a person with extreme political, social or religious views to adopt more moderate positions on the issues.

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Disconnect (software)

Disconnect is a partly open source browser extension and mobile app designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers, and providing private web search and private web browsing.

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Discourse

Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication.

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Discrimination

Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.

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DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is an American software company that offers a number of products intended to help people protect their online privacy.

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In news media and social media, an echo chamber is an environment or ecosystem in which participants encounter beliefs that amplify or reinforce their preexisting beliefs by communication and repetition inside a closed system and insulated from rebuttal. Filter bubble and echo chamber (media) are Influence of mass media, mass media issues, media bias, public opinion, social influence and Sociology of technology.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980) is an author, activist, and entrepreneur.

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Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Fact-checking

Fact-checking is the process of verifying the factual accuracy of questioned reporting and statements.

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Fake news

Fake news or information disorder is false or misleading information (misinformation, including disinformation, propaganda, and hoaxes) presented as news. Filter bubble and Fake news are internet manipulation and propaganda.

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False consensus effect

In psychology, the false consensus effect, also known as consensus bias, is a pervasive cognitive bias that causes people to "see their own behavioral choices and judgments as relatively common and appropriate to existing circumstances".

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Feed (Facebook)

Facebook's Feed, formerly known as the News Feed, is a web feed feature for the social network.

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Firefox

Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.

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In the social sciences, framing comprises a set of concepts and theoretical perspectives on how individuals, groups, and societies organize, perceive, and communicate about reality.

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Gmail

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Google Maps

Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google.

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Google Personalized Search

Google Personalized Search is a personalized search feature of Google Search, introduced in 2004.

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Group polarization

In social psychology, group polarization refers to the tendency for a group to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members.

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Groupthink

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

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Infodemic

An infodemic is a rapid and far-reaching spread of both accurate and inaccurate information about certain issues. Filter bubble and infodemic are social influence.

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Information

Information is an abstract concept that refers to something which has the power to inform.

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Information bias (psychology)

Information bias is a cognitive bias to seek information when it does not affect action.

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Information silo

An information silo, or a group of such silos, is an insular management system in which one information system or subsystem is incapable of reciprocal operation with others that are, or should be, related.

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John Boehner

John Andrew Boehner (born, 1949) is a retired American politician who served as the 53rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015.

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Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan L. Zittrain (born December 24, 1969) is an American professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School.

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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Media consumption or media diet is the sum of information and entertainment media taken in by an individual or group. Filter bubble and media consumption are media bias.

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Microsoft Bing

Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.

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Mozilla

Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape.

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Narrowcasting

Narrowcasting is the dissemination of information to a specialised audience, rather than to the broader public-at-large; it is the opposite of broadcasting.

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Nespresso

Nestlé Nespresso S.A., trading as Nespresso, is an operating unit of the Nestlé Group, based in Vevey, Switzerland.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.

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The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Penguin Group

Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

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Personalized search

Personalized search is a web search tailored specifically to an individual's interests by incorporating information about the individual beyond the specific query provided.

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Plug-in (computing)

In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.

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Political polarization

Political polarization (spelled polarisation in British English, African and Caribbean English, and New Zealand English) is the divergence of political attitudes away from the center, towards ideological extremes.

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Qwant

Qwant is a French search engine that launched in February 2013.

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Recommender system

A recommender system, or a recommendation system (sometimes replacing system with terms such as platform, engine, or algorithm), is a subclass of information filtering system that provides suggestions for items that are most pertinent to a particular user.

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Reverberation

Reverberation (commonly shortened to reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound after it is produced.

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Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF; "Swiss Radio and Television") is a Swiss broadcasting company created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of radio company Schweizer Radio DRS (SR DRS) and television company Schweizer Fernsehen (SF).

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Search engine manipulation effect

The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) is a term invented by psychologist Robert Epstein in 2015 to describe a hypothesized change in consumer preferences and voting preferences by search engines.

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Search engine results page

A search engine results page (SERP) is a webpage that is displayed by a search engine in response to a query by a user.

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Searx

Searx (stylized as searX) is a free and open-source metasearch engine, available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users.

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Security

Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercion).

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Selective exposure theory

Selective exposure is a theory within the practice of psychology, often used in media and communication research, that historically refers to individuals' tendency to favor information which reinforces their pre-existing views while avoiding contradictory information. Filter bubble and Selective exposure theory are Sociology of technology.

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Serendipity

Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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A social bot, also described as a social AI or social algorithm, is a software agent that communicates autonomously on social media. Filter bubble and social bot are internet manipulation and propaganda and social influence.

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Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively". Filter bubble and Social capital are social influence.

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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks. Filter bubble and Social media are social influence.

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Social polarization is the segregation within a society that emerges when factors such as income inequality, real-estate fluctuations and economic displacement result in the differentiation of social groups from high-income to low-income.

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Social sorting is understood as the breakdown and categorization of group- or person-related raw data into various categories and segments by data manipulators and data brokers.

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Splinternet

The splinternet (also referred to as cyber-balkanization or internet balkanization) is a characterization of the Internet as splintering and dividing due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, religion, and divergent national interests. Filter bubble and splinternet are internet censorship.

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Startpage.com

Startpage is a Dutch search engine company that highlights privacy as its distinguishing feature.

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Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.

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Stochastic block model

The stochastic block model is a generative model for random graphs.

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Targeted advertising

Targeted advertising is a form of advertising, including online advertising, that is directed towards an audience with certain traits, based on the product or person the advertiser is promoting.

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TED (conference)

TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Path to Prosperity

The Path to Prosperity: Restoring America's Promise was the Republican Party's budget proposal for the federal government of the United States in the fiscal year 2012.

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The Social Dilemma is a 2020 American docudrama film directed by Jeff Orlowski and written by Orlowski, Davis Coombe, and Vickie Curtis.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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User intent

User intent, otherwise known as query intent or search intent, is the identification and categorization of what a user online intended or wanted to find when they typed their search terms into an online web search engine for the purpose of search engine optimisation or conversion rate optimisation.

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Vox (website)

Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media.

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Well-being

Well-being, or wellbeing, also known as wellness, prudential value, prosperity or quality of life, is what is intrinsically valuable relative to someone.

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Wharton School

The Wharton School (or UPenn Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia.

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YaCy

YaCy (pronounced “ya see”) is a free distributed search engine built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, created by Michael Christen in 2003.

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2011 Egyptian revolution

The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January Revolution (translit), began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt.

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2016 United States elections

The 2016 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

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2016 United States presidential election

The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

Also known as Bubble (media), Closed silo of content, Cultural bubble, Culture bubble, Filter bubbles, Gender bubble, Hotel California effect, Ideological bubble, Information bubble, Informational bubble, Language bubble, Lingual bubble, National bubble, Nationality bubble, Political bubble, Politics bubble, Religion bubble, Religious bubble, Search bubble, Social bubble, Social media bubble, The Filter Bubble.

, Google, Google Maps, Google Personalized Search, Group polarization, Groupthink, Infodemic, Information, Information bias (psychology), Information silo, John Boehner, Jonathan Zittrain, Mark Zuckerberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media consumption, Microsoft Bing, Mozilla, Narrowcasting, Nespresso, New York University, News media, Oxford University Press, Penguin Group, Personalized search, Plug-in (computing), Political polarization, Qwant, Recommender system, Reverberation, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Search engine manipulation effect, Search engine results page, Searx, Security, Selective exposure theory, Serendipity, Slate (magazine), Social bot, Social capital, Social media, Social polarization, Social sorting, Splinternet, Startpage.com, Stereotype, Stochastic block model, Targeted advertising, TED (conference), The Economist, The New York Times, The Path to Prosperity, The Social Dilemma, The Washington Post, Twitter, User intent, Vox (website), Well-being, Wharton School, YaCy, 2011 Egyptian revolution, 2016 United States elections, 2016 United States presidential election.

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See also

Influence of mass media

Personalized search

Sociology of technology

References