Ezra Freelove

3088 days ago

Sunstein did not account for Facebook algorithms or the spread of demonstrably false information. The first factor amplifies the enclave effect he described; the second nurtures confident extremism. Even when information is accurate, enclave extremism helps explain how those who trade in fact, such as journalists, could manage to get the big-picture stuff, such as the electoral mood of the country, completely wrong.

The Failure of Facebook Democracy

newyorker.com

In December of 2007, the legal theorist Cass R. Sunstein wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education_ _about the filtering effects that frequently attend the spread of information on the Web.