I was wondering what are some strategies to get out ones filter bubble? Are there any tools that provide insights into the boundaries of a filter bubble?<p>I've been experimenting with a mindmap to discover what I have been focusing on, it kind of works. What have others done?
Define a filter bubble and what this precisely means.<p>Regardless of your news watching habits, I think you mainly have to watch out for 2 things.<p>1) <i>You clearly understand the biases of your own news sources.</i> If you are entertained by watching a lot of Alex Jones for instance, that's fine as long as you understand that he has his own way of looking at the world and you might get incomplete information on some topic by not looking at other sources of information and opinion. Similarly, if you like watching a lot of Rachel Maddow, great, but she's also got her own set of viewpoints and ways of looking at the world and you might not always get the full picture on a topic by hearing her. This rule applies to anybody and every news organization. Everybody and everything has their biases, some more or less so than others. You should be especially vigilant for bullshit when you don't know somebody's bias, and/or they claim to be unbiased. To me, somebody like Alex Jones whose bias you know is a lot less potentially damaging to society than some news source that claims to be unbiased, but actually are biased just as any human is.<p>2) <i>You are familiar with the arguments and viewpoints of the opposite side.</i> Coming from a libertarian perspective, I'd work hard to try and understand others' viewpoints and arguments against my positions. But in my experience, sometimes the people screaming loudest against many of my views were the ones who were wholly ignorant on the other side's arguments. Because they didn't understand anything outside of their very limited bubble, they tended to only comprehend many of my positions only through lenses like "hating the poor" or "racism".
<a href="https://www.improvethenews.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.improvethenews.org/</a> worked on/advocated for by Tegmark from MIT.