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Can we burst the bubble? John Prideaux, US Editor, The Economist - Moderator Joyce Baz, Head of PR and Communications, Google MENA Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Founder and Editor, MuslimGirl.com Jason Leavy, Managing Director, MENA, VICE Media Whether newspaper proprietors like it or not, most people who engage with news on social media are unlikely to dirty their fingers with print. Algorithms, not editors, are increasingly acting as the filter to our knowledge of events, with curated feeds that limit our exposure to material, people and ideas that we may not “like”. Back in the analogue world, the question of how to burst such bubbles was the subject of a panel discussion at Culture Summit Abu Dhabi 2019. The debate was moderated by John Prideaux, US Editor of The Economist. He was joined by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, author of Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age, and the founder and editor of MuslimGirl.com, an online magazine written by and for young Muslim women; Jason Leavy, Managing Director of VICE Media in the MENA region, a digital media and broadcasting company launched in 2017 with the aim of producing local content that reflects its young Arab audience’s interests and concerns; and Joyce Baz, 99