My Bubble, Your Bubble

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 23, 2021

Before we head for dinners with folks with different media diets, Kai Wright, host of the WNYC's The United States of Anxiety, and Kousha Navidar, senior digital producer for WNYC's The United States of Anxiety, offer an experiment to get past the filter bubbles that define what information gets to us.

If two people search broad terms like "patriot" or "vaccine" in YouTube, they might get very different results.

Now, @kai_wright + @KoushaNavidar on the concept of "filter bubbles," and how our different digital worlds inform our real life beliefs. https://t.co/20NQjvN7re
— The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast (@BrianLehrer) November 23, 2021

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