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[Holiday Replay] The Battle for Truth: Disinformation, Misinformation, & Conspiracies

8th Layer Insights

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Is Social Media Driving Polarization?

Peter Bergen: We're all experiencing media through the lens of algorithms that think they understand who we are, what we want to consume. He says this has a couple of pernicious effects; one is it's passive and it's invisible. And then I think the second challenge here is we don't know what we don't see. These filter bubbles create echo chambers that are extremely hard to get out of, he says.

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