Filter Bubble

By Lambert Strether of Corrente We at NC have no particular love for Google: They’ve downranked us, because we’re small (i.e., not “authoritative”), but also presumably because our links aggregation features compete with their pathetic and poorly sourced New…

In recent times, algorithms and automation have become pervasive if not always fully understood facets of contemporary life. What we read and watch, how we meet people and develop relationships, and how decisions are made about jobs, loans, and insurancethese…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Its that time of year again: turkey, travel, tension. As fun as it is to stuff the turkey and deck the halls, the holiday season brings its fair share of drama. Some of i…

WT.Social is a new social network that doesnt have ads and relies on subscriptions.Created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, it wants to be a news focused social network.However, its desire to avoid misinformation and clickbait means…

Startpage News Tab is a new feature of the search engine that promises to give people news that hasnt been personalized.Personally curated feeds, sometimes referred to as a filter bubble, are based on an individuals online behavior constructed by previous sea…

Search engine Startpage launched its new News offering on November 21, 2019. The new feature promises to deliver news to users that are not curated or personalized. In other words: every user who looks up the same term at the same time gets the same news retu…

The privacy-focussed search engine, Startpage, has announced a news tab for search results. Currently, Startpage gives web, image, and video but the addition of a news tab will bring its feature parity closer to that of competitors, making it easier for peopl…

When it comes to news literacy, schools often emphasize fact-checking and hoax-spotting. But as I argue in my new book, schools must go deeper with how they teach the subject if they want to help students thrive in a democratic society. As a new poll shows t…

Solving Online Threat Screening Games using Constrained Action Space Reinforcement Learning Authors:Sanket Shah, Arunesh Sinha, Pradeep Varakantham, Andrew Perrault, Milind Tambe Abstract: Large-scale screening for potential threats with limi…

Preliminary note: the ideas in the post emerged during the Learning-by-doing AI safety workshop at EA Hotel; special thanks to Linda Linsefors, Davide Zagami and Morgan Sinclaire for giving suggestions and feedback. As the title anticipates, long-term safety…