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filter bubbles

filter bubbles is the plural of filter bubble.

Meaning of filter bubble

Noun

filter bubble (plural filter bubbles)

  1. A state of intellectual isolation resulting from exposure to only highly personalized Internet content (which is insular and polarizing).
    • The other problem with algorithms is that they trap us in what is known as “filter bubbles” — the digital equivalent of an echo chamber, in which our incoming sources of information have been so customized to us that they simply confirm and reinforce what we already believe.2020 June 16, Brooke Shelby Biggs, “Do you live in a news bubble?”, in Independent Lens

Questions about filter bubbles

What is filter bubbles the plural of?
Filter bubbles is the plural of filter bubble.

Words near filter bubbles in the dictionary

  1. filter bank
  2. filter banks
  3. filter bed
  4. filter beds
  5. filter bubble
  6. filter bubbles
  7. filter cake
  8. filter cakes
  9. filter card
  10. filter cards
  11. filter coffee

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