[em-bee]

With social media everyone can choose their own adventure

isn't the issue that you can't actually choose yourself, but that it is chosen for you?

[pixl97]

Well that and people tend to seek out information they agree with rather than information that challenges their views.

Hence if you throw enough lines, you can catch almost anyone and lead them towards garbage.

[plastic-enjoyer]

> Well that and people tend to seek out information they agree with rather than information that challenges their views.

I don't think this is necessarily true. A while ago, I read a study which found that right-leaning people have the greatest media diversity, i.e. they also consume media from their political opponents. The problem here is less that people are being in a filter bubble or pick their information selectively, and more that people weight information differently depending whether they trust the source, or not.

[frm88]

A while ago, I read a study which found that right-leaning people have the greatest media diversity, i.e. they also consume media from their political opponents.

Statistics say the opposite: left leaning persons in the US have a broader spectrum of media they consume and trust. From the selection of ~30 media presented, people on the right basically chose 1: Fox News https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/democrats-trust-more-news-...