The internet essentially turned news into a free market commodity. The Editor has been replaced with the Eigenvector in that good ol' recommendation algorithm e

The internet essentially turned news into a free market commodity. The Editor has been replaced with the Eigenvector in that good ol' recommendation algorithm everyone uses (I assume some variation of PageRank), to infer what's most relevant to the current user. By virtue of this alone, an echo chamber is being packaged and delivered to users on content platforms. The seemingly insurmountable problem is to get people to consume content that challenges their preconceptions, as opposed to having them validated repeatedly in exchange for a dopamine hit.