The journey from a journalist's keyboard to your phone's notification bar is a multitiered, multistep, instantaneous, and fault tolerant process, orchestrated on the terabytes!
For large corporations, credibility often feels like an inherited trait, built over decades and backed by significant resources. Independent creators, however, start from scratch. They lack the imposing brand recognition and the institutional heft.
This leads directly to the concept of the "filter bubble," a term coined by internet activist Eli Pariser. It describes the state of intellectual isolation that can result from personalized searches and feeds.
These instances, among many others, undermine the democratic principle of equal representation, as the voices and interests of average citizens can be drowned out by well-funded lobbying efforts.