The information about the bubble is interesting but I disagree with him as to his conclusion. “Journalistic ethics” did not “get us through the last century”. In fact, “journalistic Ethics” of the last 50 years acted against America’s interests in a radical and destructive way.
“Algorithmic gatekeepers” programmed to apply neo-”journalistic ethics” are much scarier than ones designed to cater to our personal interests — and more scary even than ones designed to steer us towards specific advertisers or services.
Who decides what is “important”, “challenging” or even “different”? I trust Zuckerberg’s judgment on those things even LESS than I trust his judgment as to what my usage indicates would be of interest to me.
Yes.
But as he said, he is a Liberal.
This issue is certainly not about you or me.
It is about the folks that won’t watch an hour long presentation or read something more than a quarter page.
They are, the Google’s and Yahoo’s of the world are pushing people into a box out of convenience.
I’m not sure about your experience over the years using MS Windows, for example.
The operating system and user interface has progressively attempted to “HELP ME”.
It/they “assume” what I want to do, and try to make that easier for me.
Automatically.
I hate it.
It drives me mad.