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Homogeneous Self-serving Information Bubbles

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Guy Burgess: The QED Trap

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Fact Frames
Facts do not speak for themselves. The same information from different sources, or received by different people, can lead to very different conclusions. One's "fact frames" determine what is believed and how that determines one's choices about what to do.

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Jonathan Stray: Why Build Bridges when Democracy is Burning?
Jonathan Stray explains why we still need to build bridges to "the other side," even if we think they are doing terrible things. It is the only way for those who want to protect democracy to "win" that fight.

News and Opinion
How to Fix the Internet With a Single Regulation -- Algorithms have led to filter bubbles and fueled polarization. It's time to bring back the tech for a shared reality.

News and Opinion
We all live in bubbles. It's time to burst them.

News and Opinion
Our information silos make it easy to find Putin's take on the news

News and Opinion
We're not going away': Conservatives build their own media ecosystem to fight cancel culture
Further evidence that "cancel culture" sanctions and misinformation control measures are not going to resolve our conflicts. They will simply divide us into ever more isolated information bubbles.

News and Opinion
Actually, You Don't Know That Much
An exploration of what happens when we are so convinced that we are right that we think that anyone who disagrees with us is stupid and probably evil.