Cass Sunstein's '#Republic' explores dangers of social media curation - Harvard Gazette - 0 views
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Mathieu Plourde on 10 May 18"an unfortunate and largely unintended consequence of the rise of social media is that instead of being better informed and exposed to ever-broadening viewpoints, research shows that Americans today are more polarized and draw from shrinking pools of news. Many people now operate in virtual gated communities as a result of their culled Facebook and Twitter feeds and the opaque corporate algorithms that organize people into invisible groups."