Michel Wieviorka Too

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The phenomenon is, as we now know, accentuated by social networks, which have industrialized the practice and which feed on it themselves due to the structuring biases of algorithms.

Sociologist Dominique Cardon spoke of the polarization of the lithuania cell phone number list web, that is to say the formation of an ideological bubble where similar opinions encourage a radicalization of speech on this space. Francesca Musiani, research fellow at the CNRS, speaks of "siloing" because the sharing of information responds to logics of affinity and proximity. This is particularly the case of Google referencing which is done by popularity but not only.

Since 2010, Google has introduced into its PageRank algorithm a personification of the result that is based on previously consulted sites and recent searches, de facto accentuating this phenomenon. The activist Eli Pariser even speaks of closed cognitive spaces , which would reinforce each person's opinions. These are obviously collateral effects of the search engine's economic model, but which promote and reinforce the mesh of post-truth in our society. It is all the more vicious, explains Romain Badouard, lecturer at the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Sorbonne, because it is in fact a form of painless and satisfying internal propaganda.