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## Caz's commentary on | [How filter bubbles distort reality: Everything you need to know.](https://fs.blog/2017/07/filter-bubbles/)
###### also commentary on ["Did media literacy backfire?"](https://points.datasociety.net/did-media-literacy-backfire-7418c084d88d#.d46kox6e1) and ["Understanding Information disorder"](https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/understanding-information-disorder/)

People would rather feel pain than be [bored](https://youtu.be/iqKdEhx-dD4). Since this is true, we should not be surprised that when most people are consuming news online, "chances are high that we are not doing this intending to be educated on certain topic" they just happened to stumble on it while looking for some form of entertainment.

Though when consuming news media unintentionally, we still aren't consuming something that isn't already catered to us. This is due to **filter bubbles** which are the results of the algorithms that dictate what we encounter online.

Through your cookies, web history, and all your clicks and scrolls the internet knows you.

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##### The Netflix documentary has a great way of demonstrating how the internet figures you out

Mental Models explain it perfectly; "The internet doesn't just know you're a dog; it knows your breed and wants to sell you a bowl of premium kibble"

*Though the way I see it, they want you to sell you an alleged premium kibble.*

The only way to remove yourself from this bubble is to either browse the internet without your identity *(your personal accounts, history, and cookies)* or to become HYPER aware of both sides / that both "sides" of the political media and to understand people are programmed this way outside the internet.

I think the way Danah Boyd speaks of the internet and how your life outside the internet affects what and the way you consume online media is important to take into account.

Personally, in my circle, I stay in has a distaste for conservative media sources like fox news; Or political commentators like Steven Crowder or Ben Shapiro.
The media sources I would be more inclined to use in high school or even now would be the source NYT. The way Boyd describes this in the opposite manner does make me realize that it is true; what we can't see doesn't mean it's not happening. I had the notion in my head that, how are these conservatives not realizing that their takes are so different from the rest of the world but this "world" I think of is just my bubble.

It is surprising the amount of fabricated content and misinformation online that is overlooked. All the examples given by Claire Wardle are shocking. The tweet of the child in a cage that was staged as a protest is alarming. Although my feelings on immigration are that any illegal immigrant shouldn't be treated like an animal; Subjecting a child to participate in a protest in that manner is alarming and unethical. The same way separating families is when it comes to immigration.

Everything online basically is catered to you and made to make you engage with it.

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