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When couples live in different algorithmic bubbles and can't agree on basic facts

My partner and I disagree about what information sources we trust and the algorithm keeps feeding us different realities and we're starting to argue about basic facts and I don't know how to have a conversation when we can't even agree on what's true anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The personalization of information creates epistemological isolation that fractures shared understanding even between intimate partners.

Ideas that help explain it
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