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My question about this is, has anyone been regularly taking screenshots or scrapes of http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/ over the past few months? And, does anyone know of similar projects to try to show the filter bubble? -Wilhelmina Randtke On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'm sure we've all read articles about the fake news that circulates in an > information environment anchored by social media, and the relation of that > information environment to the election. > > Libraries are participants in this new information enviroment, so I have > some questions. > > 1. Do libraries understand the algorithms and metadata that guide search > results and suggestions in the services they provide? Do these algorithms > reproduce biases in our society? > 2. Are libraries provide compelling enough services to be meaningful and > reliable participants in public discourse? > 3. When libraries connect their services to social networks (for example > with a Facebook "Like" button) are they making user's the information > environment better or worse? > 4. With many users fearing a more authoritarian state, are libraries > providing services that are safe from surveillance by commercial or > government entities? > > > Eric Hellman > President, Free Ebook Foundation > Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/ > https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ > twitter: @gluejar > >