Definition of echo chamber
: a room with sound-reflecting walls used for producing hollow or echoing sound effects
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Some critics say that your podcast perpetuates the liberal echo chamber.
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But with the advent and explosion of social media, echo chambers took on a life of their own.
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Not everyone is living in a cloistered information echo chamber, either.
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Of course, women-centric groups can create an echo chamber if men, who often set higher earnings benchmarks, aren’t included.
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Stories will be missed, facts will go unchecked, tales will go untold — and partisan echo chambers and social-media hysteria will rush into the void.
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Even when Facebook downplayed the importance of the echo chamber effect in their own Science study, the data was based on a tiny snapshot of users (i.e. those who declared their political ideology or about 4% of the total Facebook population).
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Analysts say this system reinforces echo chambers, and has allowed misinformation to go viral in an environment where digital and news literacy are low.
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Most hateful posts were ignored or only shared within a small echo chamber of similar accounts.
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First Known Use of echo chamber
circa 1937
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