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Your Echo Chamber is Destroying Democracy.” “The Filter Bubble Explains Why Trump Won and You Didn’t See It Coming (The Cut).” “Journalists and Trump Voters Live in Parallel Universes.” These are just three choice examples of news publications that have factored filter bubbles as an agent in the destruction of democracy in the age of Trump and why Trump’s election caught many off guard. Filter bubbles, so the common wisdom goes, contribute to the kind of social homophily that stalls democratic debate, eases the rise of fascism, and leads readers to trust media sources based on partisan or ideological identification rather than epistemological rigor...For these reasons, there is a potential to create algorithmic “parallel universes” in which audiences cannot agree on the shared facts necessarily to have productive political dialogue. Therefore, drawing from influential political theorist John Dewey, Pariser declares that “filter bubble” is danger to democracy.
