Eli Pariser wants to build a better Facebook

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🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Nearly 10 years ago, Eli Pariser coined the term “filter bubble” — the idea that Facebook and other platforms limit our view of the world through software choices. Now he wants to create new, non-profit and localized versions of Facebook to help restore our fragmented communities. He talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about his plans. Featuring: Eli Pariser (@elipariser), Co-Founder of New Public by Civic Signals Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:41.7	so everyone needs to bear with me, including my guest, Eli Pariser. Hi, Eli. Hey, thanks for having me on. Thanks for beaming in from Maine for this one. Many of you learned about Eli when he coined the term the filter bubble, which we're going to talk about in a minute. You may have known him as the guy who created Upworthy, which is briefly one of the most influential companies in media.
2:01.8	He's now a co-founder of something called Civic Signals slash New Public, which I think described
2:07.8	itself as a newsletter magazine and community, and he's going to explain to us what all of that is.
2:11.9	But I do want to start off with the filter bubble idea, Eli, because you coined that, what,
2:16.2	back in 2011?
2:18.1	Do you have the date right?
2:19.1	Yep.
2:20.5	That was when it started.
2:22.5	So we were nearly 10 years later.
2:25.7	This was an enormously influential idea.
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