Fall, or Dodge in hell, by Neil Stephenson has a take on this.

The internet is flooded with slop and rage-bait on purpose. So filled as to be unusable, like a firehose of shit. So in there comes a role if "editor" whose job it is (you pay them) to only give you, well not even what's "true", rather what reflects your world view. So which editor you have becomes a factor in how you live, where your educated, your status.

It will be interesting to see if something as explicit as editors arise.

I will say this, if you stay off Facebook and some of the other big social sites for a while, it is like a madhouse when you glance back

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close04 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Doesn’t this just reinforce your echo chamber? Your “editor” only gives you stuff you want to see not the stuff you need or should see.

And once you empower someone to gate or filter your access to information, what’s stopping them from treating you like the product for a better paying customer, like today?

	▲	roomey 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		You have hit the nail on the head there! The point in the book was that depending on your editor, you were essentially living in different realities. There was the east and west coasts, and then there was Ameristan (or something I can't remember exactly) in between, which was fundamentalist

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fullshark 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Algorithmic feeds, search result pages, and LLM responses with web citations are all different editors. It's just a computer doing the editing.