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About the issue of information cocoons and recommendation algorithms
Regarding the issue of information cocoons and recommendation algorithms, most platforms now recommend content based on users' own interests and preferences. What kind of situation does this create? It leads to an information cocoon, where every click, every like, and every duration of browsing on the platform becomes part of this cocoon. With this continuous reinforcement, the cocoon becomes increasingly solidified, resulting in a certain predicament: your perspective becomes narrower and narrower, and what you believe and see, you consider to be correct, because everyone else's thoughts align with yours, leading to a narrow value judgment. In fact, we need to understand that the world is diverse, and values should also be diverse. It is necessary to understand and tolerate different thoughts and values through constant collisions and communication. Only in this way can we form a relatively complete cognitive judgment and have a relatively inclusive perspective to examine the many events that occur. Therefore, from a personal standpoint, we should actively break the cocoon of cognition, seek to understand different, fresh, and unknown fields, and expand our horizons and the boundaries of our understanding.