LONG BEACH, California -- With the birth of the internet came the promise -- or so the myth goes -- of broadened horizons and fantastic new opportunities to connect people and viewpoints in ways we ...

The internet is increasingly becoming an echo chamber in which websites tailor information according to the preferences they detect in each viewer. When some users search the word “Egypt,” they may ...

Take a look at the archived live chat from 6/28 by visiting the PopTech blog here. Sinan Aral and Eli Pariser have both spent quite a bit of time looking at the influence of social networks and the ...

In time for the release of his book, The Filter Bubble, on May 12, we wanted to share Eli Pariser’s PopTech related talk from this past October. In both his talk and forthcoming book, Pariser focuses ...

If you ask people what their overarching desire for humanity is, most would say world peace. Upworthy founder Eli Pariser has more or less spent his career trying to make it happen – or at least, to ...

MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser has written a surprisingly critical book about the Internet. In The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from Us, Pariser acknowledges that he once bought ...

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Upworthy lives in a “post-page view and post-impression era,” according to founder and chief executive Eli Pariser. While many digital publishers try to rack up enough unique visitors to warrant a ...

At the top of my summer reading list is The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser’s new book that argues that the filters we rely on to make sense of the online world can do us as much harm as good. While the ...

There are news sites, there are viral video sites, and then there is Upworthy - a site that prides itself on providing content on "things that matter" and asking its users to "pass 'em on." Upworthy ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Eli Pariser wanted his speech to the hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in ...