On Eli Pariser and the algorithm bubble

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Eli Pariser, who's currently the chief executive of Upworthy, wrote a book in 2011 called The Filter Bubble. A nine-minute TED Talk on many of the same topics is embedded above, but essentially, the idea is that personalized search -- i.e. the algorithmic targeting that Google and Facebook …