Online Peril: Overexposing Ourselves To Beliefs Like Ours

“When we go online, each of us is our own editor, our own gatekeeper. We select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. … The danger is that this self-selected ‘news’ acts as a narcotic, lulling us into a self-confident stupor through which we will perceive in blacks and whites a world that typically unfolds in grays.”