Public content on Facebook will be pared in favour of friends’ and family posts. One, it is admitting that a lot of what went on in the public posts (including fake news) was avoidable. Third and most importantly, the decision to tweak the news feed is by implication putting a finger on one of the biggest challenges of the rapidly expanding social media space: creation of echo chambers, or what some call filter bubbles. Conversations have become echo chambers, where we only like to hear views similar to ours. Already social conversations on these trade-offs are acquiring an extreme hue tinged with violence and hate; they are very close to the tipping point.

Source: Mint January 21, 2018 18:08 UTC