The network will give you news based on your location so you can only read the news of what's happening at your location. This may be good because you might want to read news about your location. Something bad about this is if you're overseas and you want to read news about your home. 

b) If we live in a filter bubble? How do we break out of the filter bubble?
For language barriers, use Google Translate. Best yet, use Google News. It's easy to understand and if it is a different language, use Google Translate.

We can break out of the filter bubble by scrolling past what shows up on the first page and we can change our setting to off our location and search history, so that we can be exposed to more kinds of news,  which we may later find more interesting. We should not narrow it down to a section of the news that appeals to us. To break out of the filter bubble, we also have to be open to more types of news and not only stick to the news that we have interest in. 

When the news is personalised, one might not get news that is out of what they usually read, which is a negative effect. A positive side to that is that the person will be more willing to read the news, something that they are interested in. News is personalised for me in a way that what I usually search on the internet is limited, and I usually ignore the news articles unless they are actually interesting.
It can also be personalised by what I have liked on social media, types of accounts I follow, mainly my interests.

b) If we live in a filter bubble? How do we break out of the filter bubble?

We can do so by scrolling past the first page of results on the internet, changing location services such that one can read news out of the country. We can also willingly read other news and share news with each other.

We can read news from news platforms from other countires

I think living in a filter bubble means that you only read certain topics of news. I think that we can break out of this filter bubble by one, reading news from foreign newspapers such as the New York Times to get different perspectives of news stories all around the world and not have a biased opinion on a situation. Another way that we can break out of our filter filter bubble would be taking the time to read the different sections of the local newspaper, like The Straits Times. For example, if you constantly read the Home section only, you could consider reading more articles in the Business and life sections so that you are exposed to the different news topics and different types of news to break out of our filter bubble. 

Personalising the news will cause us to read certain types of news only. This means that we might miss out certain top stories that are happening round the world. We would not be able to get the full idea of what is happening in Singapore or in the other parts of the world. Sometimes, we might only listen to a one-sided piece of news, which could make it unreliable. These are the negative effects in personalising the news. The positive effects of personalising the news is that we are able to read articles that we are interested in the moment we click on the link. 

Based on what we click on the internet, the internet filters and personalise our search results. Thus the internet gives us what they think we want to see, instead of what we need to see.

b) If we live in a filter bubble? How do we break out of the filter bubble?
We can read the hardcopy version of the newspaper, instead of the online version. The hardcopy version of Newspapers have a gatekeeper, which makes sure that the news that we receive is standardised and does not contain any bias and remains a neutral perspective.