filter bubble
noun
: an environment and especially an online environment in which people are exposed only to opinions and information that conform to their existing beliefs
As Facebook users around the world are coming to understand, some of their favorite technologies can be used against them. … People's filter bubbles are filled with carefully tailored information—and misinformation—altering their behavior and thinking, and even their votes.—
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Examples of filter bubble in a Sentence
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The results suggest that filter bubbles are at least somewhat real, but countering them algorithmically doesn’t seem to bring us any closer together.
—WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
In a world of filter bubbles and willful propagating of misinformation, this shift can be viewed as an encouraging development.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Skeptics might argue that the middleware approach would fragment the Internet and reinforce filter bubbles.
—Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2020
Steven Cherry So has the problem of filter bubbles gotten worse since that term was coined a decade ago?
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2020
Steven Cherry: So has the problem of filter bubbles gotten worse since that term was coined a decade ago?
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2020
WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
In a world of filter bubbles and willful propagating of misinformation, this shift can be viewed as an encouraging development.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Skeptics might argue that the middleware approach would fragment the Internet and reinforce filter bubbles.
—Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2020
Steven Cherry So has the problem of filter bubbles gotten worse since that term was coined a decade ago?
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2020
Steven Cherry: So has the problem of filter bubbles gotten worse since that term was coined a decade ago?
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
2010, in the meaning defined above
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“Filter bubble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filter%20bubble. Accessed 28 Nov. 2023.
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