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Too much local filtering can end up really polarizing people though. You can slowly (soft) censor the news yourself just based on what you click on, and not nec
by mennis16 6y ago
Too much local filtering can end up really polarizing people though. You can slowly (soft) censor the news yourself just based on what you click on, and not necessarily realize that you are getting increasingly biased information. Perhaps there is some good way to balance showing opposing news sources with the personalization.
- mirimir 6y agoSure, you can't protect people from filter bubbles. But at least you can have media that don't enforce filter bubbles.
- mennis16 6y agoYou can't totally protect people of course, but there is also a difference between allowing people to watch only Fox News or only MSNBC, and having a content aggregator/search engine that silently shifts towards showing you only certain viewpoints, based on your existing views. Especially because such personalization can be done on an issue-level, whereas the biased news sources generally stick to a specific agenda set, which you may not neatly fall into. Not saying it isn't possible to do something like this right but I think it would need to be done very carefully, because IMO it could also make things worse than just having an aggregator that is up front biased in a particular way.