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 ...

In their effort to help fix the filter bubble problem, developers of news app Read Across the Aisle took inspiration from an unlikely source: exercise trackers. Designed to help people diversify their ...

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 ...

I accidentally logged into a colleague’s YouTube account recently. Instead of my usual recommendations, there was a world of music I’d never heard. It got me thinking… Today, consumers see content ...

Facebook's algorithm sucks, and Congress wants to do something about it. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing forward what it's titled the "Filter Bubble Transparency Act." Axios got a copy of ...

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 ...

It’s nearly inevitable: Humans tend to associate with those who are similar to us — whether politically, economically, racially or otherwise. And not only are we more likely to have friends who are ...

Think you’re on the Internet right now? Well, you’re not. You’re on your Internet. The exact version of the online world that you see is available only to you ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.