Newsfeeds And Notice – How Social Networks Might Affect Class Action Litigation

The resources from which people obtain, and choose to obtain, information have changed dramatically. A recent and highly publicized discussion of how information is exchanged might be the so-called filter bubble that many social media users experience. This bubble has reportedly caused "autonomous decision-making," which hypothesizes that people pay attention to only those sources of information with which they agree and that reinforce their beliefs. These theories are seemingly supported by data regarding how U.S. adults utilize services like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Reddit, and how these and other social media sites are now among the primary sources of news and other information for U.S. adults.