The Filter Bubble

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This is Gavin Newsom, 15 October 2026. The book comes up at 20 min 47 sec in.

The host mentions 'Filter Bubble' (author unnamed in the transcript, referred to only as 'guy') as a book that crystallised his thinking about algorithmic filtering. He describes it as a revelation—encountered at a TED talk—about being trapped in filters and how algorithms seek and search users rather than the reverse, connecting it to his broader argument about how social platforms ended up dividing rather than uniting people.

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