Facts, Filter Bubbles, and Public Health

Michael Austin
7 min readMar 5, 2020

Judging by my Facebook feed last week, Elizabeth Warren was the front runner in the presidential election and perhaps a metaphysical certainty to win the Democratic nomination. With the exception of a few outlying Sanders supporters, almost everybody I know supported her. My news feed was filled with proud “I Voted for Elizabeth” selfies and stickers. For weeks, all the news stories shared on my feed touted Warren’s…

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Michael Austin

Michael Austin is a former English professor and current academic administrator. He is the author of We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America’s Civic Tradition