Whether you’re shopping on Amazon, searching Google, or browsing Facebook, algorithms personalize the experience and point you to content that a machine thinks you want to see. In the sphere of civic ...

Customized results from search engines and social media that are geared to the individual based on that person's past preferences. A filter bubble means two people searching for the same thing receive ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Algorithms have operated behind the scenes of our best-loved social platforms since their earliest days, but their side effects have only ...

It seems like every day there’s a barrage of headlines telling us about the evils of filter bubbles. This month was no different, with DuckDuckGo publishing a study titled “Measuring the ‘Filter ...

When we browse online, we are tracked by a range of companies. Some of this tracking occurs so that site owners understand how users interact with their sites. Other forms of tracking take a closer ...

You know I love to ask “why”? And last Tuesday provided me with the mother of all “whys." I know there will be a lot of digital ink shed about this event, but I just can’t help myself. So -- why?

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 ...

Social media didn’t create the problem of the filter bubble–even before Facebook, people often tended to get their news either from left- or right-leaning sources and surround themselves with friends ...

In 2011, with Facebook and Google growing in influence, liberal activist and entrepreneur Eli Pariser wrote a best-selling book that coined a term: The Filter Bubble. Personalized news feeds and ...