In the article, “Breaking the filter bubble: democracy and design”, the authors describe how social networking platforms have decreased information diversity due to algorithm used by search engines. Essentially, although humans have unlimited access to find accurate information on the internet.

People often have confirmation bias and choose to research information that already coincide with our pre existing beliefs. This can be detrimental to an internet user because they could be given misinformation. This inherently creates a ‘filter bubble”. In this study, they focus their research through a political scope. Their findings suggested that liberal democrats found these filter bubbles to be problem because it limits their sense of individuality and choice. In Deliberative democracy they value the importance on information quality. They believe filter bubbles creates a decrease ability to discover perspectives, facts, and the truth. On the contrary, in contestatory democracy they believe that it is the medias responsibility to provide accurate channels to the public. They believe the filter bubble is a problem because it removes these reliable channels.

In conclusion, they discovered that these plethora of democracy theories all represent the different aspects of the filter bubble. However, the tools that are used to counteract these filter bubbles are not dong enough to fix them. They believe that, “ More work is needed to reveal designers’ understanding of democracy and to see whether they are aware of different norms.”

Furthermore, after reading this article I want to know what are effective ways misinformation can be minimized? Do you believe people should do their own research or is it the media responsibility to provide us with reliable channels? What can designers do to create an inclusive model?