The previous tabs explained the types of fake news and misinformation/disinformation and provided tools and resources to help you spot them. But you'd save some time and even anxiety if you are careful about the news you take in and sources of information you choose to use. The following boxes on this page provide you with ways to smartly select your news.
How to Choose Your News -- Damon Brown https://youtu.be/q-Y-z6HmRgI
Your Filter Bubble
So what is a "filter bubble?" Eli Pariser wrote the book The Filter Bubble in 2012 and then did a TED Talk ("Beware online 'filter bubbles'") on the concept, popularizing the term in the United States. In the TED Talk, he notes the personalization Google, Facebook, and other online companies use to control what information the viewer is exposed to. Pariser defines it this way:
...if you take all of these filters together, you take all these algorithms, you get what I call a filter bubble. And your filter bubble is your own personal, unique universe of information that you live in online. And what's in your filter bubble depends on who you are, and it depends on what you do. But the thing is that you don't decide what gets in. And more importantly, you don't actually see what gets edited out.
What does this mean for you? You must actively seek out sources that are different than the way you think, what you believe about current issues and even simply how you view the world. Break out of your filter bubble!
The Filter Bubble is part of the CML collection -- the location is provided below.
The Filter Bubble by
In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for all users, and we entered a new era of personalization. With little notice or fanfare, our online experience is changing, as the websites we visit are increasingly tailoring themselves to us. In this engaging and visionary book, MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser lays bare the personalization that is already taking place on every major website, from Facebook to AOL to ABC News. As Pariser reveals, this new trend is nothing short of an invisible revolution in how we consume information, one that will shape how we learn, what we know, and even how our democracy works. The race to collect as much personal data about us as possible, and to tailor our online experience accordingly, is now the defining battle for today's internet giants like Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. Behind the scenes, a burgeoning industry of data companies is tracking our personal information to sell to advertisers, from our political leanings to the hiking boots we just browsed on Zappos. As a result, we will increasingly each live in our own, unique information universe--what Pariser calls "the filter bubble." We will receive mainly news that is pleasant, familiar and confirms our beliefs--and since these filters are invisible, we won't know what is being hidden from us. Our past interests will determine what we are exposed to in the future, leaving less room for the unexpected encounters that spark creativity, innovation and the democratic exchange of ideas. Drawing on interviews with both cyber-skeptics and cyber-optimists, from the co-founder of OK Cupid, an algorithmically-driven dating website, to one of the chief visionaries of U.S. information warfare, THE FILTER BUBBLE tells the story of how the Internet, a medium built around the open flow of ideas, is closing in on itself under the pressure of commerce and "monetization." It peeks behind the curtain at the server farms, algorithms, and geeky entrepreneurs that have given us this new reality, and investigates the consequences of corporate power in the digital age. THE FILTER BUBBLE reveals how personalization could undermine the internet's original purpose as an open platform for the spread of ideas, and leave us all in an isolated, echoing world. But it is not too late to change course. Pariser lays out a new vision for the web, one that embraces the benefits of technology without turning a blind eye to its negative consequences, and will ensure that the Internet lives up to its transformative promise.
This Media Bias Chart is one view of how news outlets fall in the Liberal-Mainstream-Conservative viewpoints. This was created in 2016. For the most recent and interactive version of the Media Bias Chart, go here: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/
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