BuzzFeed’s Outside Your Bubble

As we finish off the current semester where we’ve been digging for the ‘truth’, I decided to check out BuzzFeed’s latest feature which launched this past February called “Outside Your Bubble.”

The module, which appears at the bottom of selected news articles encourages readers to consider different perspectives about the issue by giving a range of different opinions on the topic. They’ve included an option to contact BuzzFeed if you have an opinion that you don’t see listed.

I think the idea to get people to think “outside their bubble” is great, and necessary, but I also think BuzzFeed still has a lot of work to do on the feature itself. I’d like to see more research and less opinions. It’s also pretty limited at the moment. Hopefully, BuzzFeed will expand the feature to appear on many more articles than it does now.

You can check out what I found in this video.

All semester, the Annenberg Truth Squad has been looking at problems faced by journalists, the news industry and audience trust. Now, we’re looking at solutions — web sites, apps and new initiatives.