The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with. This weekly roundup offers the highlights of what you might ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Social media bubbles follow us around, and are not easy to pop. Credit: Mashable composite: Getty / Hill Street Studios / DigitalVisionGetty / SDI Productions / E+ Mashable’s series Algorithms ...

Following the shock results of Brexit and the Trump victory, a lot of attention has focused on the role that Facebook might have played in creating online political ghettos in which false news can ...

One could be forgiven for thinking 2017 was The Year of the Filter Bubble. While Eli Pariser introduced the world to the term half a decade ago, this was the year it seemed to really take off. You ...

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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 ...

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 ...