I was shocked when the data revealed the extent of Trump's popularity. He had more followers across all social platforms and his posts had much higher engagement rates.  I noticed that the second most popular article shared on social media in the last six months with words "Donald Trump" in the headline,  "Why I'm Voting For Donald Trump", had been shared 1.5 million times. Yet that story never made it into my Facebook newsfeed. I asked many of my liberal New York friends, and they all said they never seen it.

The global village that was once the internet was has been replaced by digital islands of isolation that are drifting further apart each day. From your Facebook feed to your Google Search, as your experience online grows increasingly personalized, the internet's islands keep getting more segregated and sound proofed. The internet that helped elect Barack Obama in 2008 and was used during Arab spring in 2011 is different from the internet that led to Brexit and the election of Donald Trump.