Filter Bubble

Politicians sometimes exaggerate the laws theyre proposing. But when they start making up new sections of a bill from whole cloth, something has gone wrong. In the case of the Filter Bubble Transparency Act, its not just spin; its an example of how badly defi…

Photo By Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Politicians sometimes exaggerate the laws they’re proposing. But when they start making up new sections of a bill from whole cloth, something has gone wrong. In the case of the Filter Bubble Transpare…

Senators To Platforms: Hand Over The Algo; DoubleClick Vet Brad Bender Transfers To Google News

By John Vibes This August, the disgraced billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein allegedly killed himself while awaiting an extremely high-profile trial. However, as soon as word of his death hit the news, there was widespread doubt and skepticism about the of…

*00:00:00 Todays News: Women stands up to Beto in Newtown & leaves him a cowering Beta-Male; Trumps no longer in a NY State of Mind, changes residency to FL; will Senates bi-partisan bill burst Googles Filter Bubble?; violent unrest in a dozen countries d…

Google, Facebook and other internet giants would disclose the algorithms they use to return search results under new legislation proposed by US law makers. The bipartisan Filter Bubble Transparency Act also would require the online companies to offer users a…

TikTok is all fun and memes, until it isnt. On Friday (Nov. 1), Reuters reported that the US government opened a probe into the merger that effectively landed the Chinese-owned app in the United States, the $1 billion acquisition of the American app Musical.l…

On this Friday broadcast of The David Knight Show, you’ll get a look at the day’s top news stories without the establishment bias of mainstream media outlets. One topic David will be covering is Google’s filter bubble, which manipulates the user’s search res…

Senate lawmakers proposed bipartisan legislation that would require search engines to disclose the algorithms they use in ranking internet searches and give consumers an option for unfiltered searches. Search engines such as Alphabet Inc. s Google unit use a…

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