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In late 2015, as Donald Trump's presidential run began reaching a fever pitch, a few enterprising programmers created apps, pages, or browser extensions for people who wanted to minimize their exposure to Trump, his fans, or both. One such browser extension is called Trump Filter. It was created by Rob Spectre, a self-described Internet Mathemagician, who created the software with three settings (Mild, Aggressive, and Vindictive) which the user could adjust based on how strong his or her dislike of Trump might be. I picked Trump for this extension in order to improve the signal-to-noise ratio in the media coverage around this election, Spectre told us. In the interest of science, we installed the extension, set it to Mild, and tried it out on a recent article about Donald Trump: The filter worked exactly as advertised: Spectre created a similar filter in 2011 to remove mentions of Derek Jeter from the user's internet.
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