People seek out and pay attention to information and cues that confirm their beliefs. They don’t seek out—in fact, they ignore or even discount—information that doesn’t support what they already believe.
Most who use the Reddit hack are doing so for practical reasons, but it’s also a small act of protest—a way to stick it to the Search Engine Optimization and Online Ad Industrial Complex and to attempt to access a part of the internet that feels freer and more human.
Bias in media: On the other hand, this also means that if you fear that your app is biased towards a political cause you disagree with or is unfairly editing or even censoring some voices you support, switch your app!
Projects like ResearchHub and Molecule/VitaDAO also offer ways to revive thousands of shelved patents and forgotten data across academia and industry. Samo Burja refers to this knowledge as intellectual dark matter. Transferring IP or creating open-source frameworks, with early patient community involvement, could lead to breakthroughs in screening... See more