If you use the internet, you’ve probably heard of a filter bubble. Internet sites and social media platforms use algorithms that show you content based on your previous interactions, likes, and shares ...

Author Eli Pariser on the way the web's warped lens is keeping us from serendipitous discoveries... No one likes to think of themself as a victim of propaganda - of being fed a diet of information ...

I accidentally logged into a colleague’s YouTube account recently. Instead of my usual recommendations, there was a world of music I’d never heard. It got me thinking… Today, consumers see content ...

We all have an inordinate number of cognitive biases, or ways in which our brains function irrationally. As a result, we constantly make illogical decisions and even mistakes because we see a narrow ...

It’s nearly inevitable: Humans tend to associate with those who are similar to us — whether politically, economically, racially or otherwise. And not only are we more likely to have friends who are ...

Facebook's algorithm sucks, and Congress wants to do something about it. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing forward what it's titled the "Filter Bubble Transparency Act." Axios got a copy of ...

In February, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced a government probe into Facebook and Google. Among the issues to be investigated? A potential “consumer protection concern” ...

Eli Pariser is no enemy of the Internet. The 30-year-old online organizer is the former executive director and now board president of the online liberal political group MoveOn.org. But while Pariser ...