echo chamber

noun

: a room with sound-reflecting walls used for producing hollow or echoing sound effects

—often used figuratively

Living in a kind of echo chamber of their own opinions, they pay attention to information that fits their conclusions and ignore information that does not.—

James Surowiecki

Examples of echo chamber in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In short, partisan echo chambers are stale, musty spaces that lack the sort of oppositional views needed to make social media tick. —

Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024 Reuters Subscribe to The Week Escape your echo chamber. —

Harold Maass, theweek, 22 Jan. 2024 There is a risk of creating an echo chamber In a room full of super-volunteers, this feature initially led to comical results. —

Tamara Keith, NPR, 24 Mar. 2024 Awareness is the first step to busting this social media echo chamber, says lead author Iain Xie Weissburg, a first-year master’s student in UCSB’s electrical and computer engineering program. —

IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2024 These tools may also act as echo chambers, potentially further radicalizing individuals already embracing these conspiracies. —

David Gilbert, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024 One corner of the conservative-media echo chamber is more than eager to keep this bunk buzz going. —

TIME, 8 Feb. 2024 Thursday's cartoons - A.I. plays doctor, Haley hangs in, and more Subscribe to The Week Escape your echo chamber. —

The Week Us, theweek, 25 Jan. 2024 But pro-democracy advocates argue the takeover has shifted what once was a flawed but useful resource for news and election information into a largely unregulated echo chamber that amplifies hate speech and misinformation. —

Ali Swenson, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023

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