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Hello and welcome to the B-side for episode 1649 of our national conversation about conversations about race.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

I'm Anna Holmes, here with Rebecca Carroll, critic at large for the L.A. Times and editor of special projects at W.N.Y.C.

Welcome back. Thank you. Nice to be here.

And joining us from D.C. is Jamel Bowie, Chief Political Correspondent at Slate.com. And now one of the

hosts of the great podcast, Trumpcast. You should all be listening to it. Glad to have you back,

Jamel. Glad to be here. And okay, so on our last episode, which I wasn't actually hosting,

we discussed informational, they, they discussed informational bubbles and whether we can bust out of

them or when that's even a desirable thing. And of course, we wanted you, the listeners, to weigh in.

So here's our producer, A.C. Valdez, with some of what you all had to say.

So I'm going to start off with this email that we got from Sarah in Portland regarding

tech and information identity bubbles. As you mentioned, technology has been a bubble enabler with

sites like Google and Facebook discovering our leanings and reinforcing them. Other sites like

Reddit allow us to silo ourselves with like-minded people,

but one social media site stands apart. Twitter. In fact, one of the things that makes Twitter

a hostile place for women and minorities is that anyone can talk to anyone else. Is Twitter

bursting bubbles in a good way? If we get out of our bubbles and talk to each other online,

would always mean harassment.

To me, we need a new social media platform where we discover or are assigned non-bubble buddies

whose life story and beliefs we get to know long term.

Thank you for your show.

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