New research has challenged the very existence of online filter bubbles.
Researchers from the universities of Oxford and Liverpool analyzed web tracking data on around 3,000 UK news users.
They also recorded the URL that preceded each visit to infer how the site was accessed.
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However, when people accessed more news directly, the prominence of more partisan outlets was lower.
Researchers should be wary of extrapolating findings from one country to the rest of the world.
But the study further challenges the existence of filter bubbles.
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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
