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I'm 90% sure it's when they started personalizing the feeds. You only see things the algorithm thinks you're going to like, but it has a very shallow idea of you as a human being limited to your outward expression.

Then It pushes you further and further to the extremes of what it thinks you like.

People were warning about filter bubbles even before Facebook did it.



> People were warning about filter bubbles even before Facebook did it.

Makes me think of "reality tunnels"[] written of long before Zuck made his website.

[] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Reality_tunnel




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