ANGELA MERKEL WARNS ON DIGITAL DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC DEBATE

The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel spoke at the opening of last “Medientage München”, the annual congress on communications in Munich. In her speech she focuses on the effects of the so-called “filter bubble” on public debate.

Angela Merkel speaking at Medientage München

Algorithms select all information according to the profile of each user. In this way, users always get what it is supposed they want. Public debate is quite never that smooth, so the democracy that lay on it would find weaker basis.