Every time i talk about politics with friends i can't believe how they all seem to prefer social media and how insulated each side can be when it comes to sources and knowledge of the opposite side's views.
Wether its left or right everyone is in his perfect bubble of funny pictures and converging paradigms
I'm not even talking about american style "SJW vs Cuckservative vs whatever" bullshit meme wars but even within communities with a reasonable political culture this is a growing problem.
And the reason is pretty simple : nowadays if you like something on fb you get computer generated recommendations based on where your interests appear to be.
This is fine for cupcakes recipes and twilight fanfictions but when you apply the same principle to news you basically create self confirmation sects that will almost never interact with each other and may even ban anyone not sharing their opinions.
And then you end up with incredibly polarized populations posting the same threads on mmo champ everyday because they see hundreds of variations of muslim rape stories and white genocide stuff all day long.
Same goes for the opposite side with trudeau fanboys threads, communism vs capitalism, etc
Should we start banning those algorithms ?
Obviously information must be free and uncensored, but we should definitely not let facebook shape the modern political discourse