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 ...

We all have an inordinate number of cognitive biases, or ways in which our brains function irrationally. As a result, we constantly make illogical decisions and even mistakes because we see a narrow ...

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 ...

Nonprofits face a growing challenge getting their message out as Google, Facebook, and other sites increasingly try to tailor information they show to meet a person’s interests. Eli Pariser, in his ...

How the Filter Bubble Impacts Google, Bing Search & What It Means for SEOs With the continuing evolution of social search, you can never know too much about your audience. SEOs should evaluate whether ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. As the results of Tuesday’s presidential election sunk in across the ...

We know that Republicans and Democrats for the most part don’t play nice with each other on social media, but a new study by Harvard researchers shows that they don’t even like living near each other ...