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Work · March 8, 2017

Read Across The Aisle

A fitbit for your filter bubble

Read Across The Aisle launched on March 8, 2017 with 75 votes, #681 of 3,481 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

What it does

Ever wonder what your social media news feed isn’t showing you? Escape your “filter bubble” with Read Across The Aisle, a new way to combat political polarization and stay informed!

We’ve been living in filter bubbles. Most of the news and stories we see on social media are shared by our friends, who are—not surprisingly—very similar to us. We come away with the impression that our views are the predominant and correct ones, and we aren’t exposed to much of the news and stories that other people are seeing. Social media makes it easy to live in these bubbles, and they’ve gotten stronger and more polarized over the last year. We could dig in our heels, dismiss our detractors as “elites” or “deplorables,” and hope that things get better. But even if this plan works, we won’t have learned anything. We still won’t know the true causes of the rifts that exist, and we won’t…from readacrosstheaisle.com

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