Definition of echo chamber
: a room with sound-reflecting walls used for producing hollow or echoing sound effects
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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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This is a scouting report completely divorced from that narrative—lacking in background, naturally, but separate from the talking points and evaluations that bounce around the draft prospect echo chamber.
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The acoustics were going to be dreadful, like an echo chamber.
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What discussion there is sometimes resembles back-patting rather than debate, an echo chamber of praise.
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This is how my days passed: afternoons spent in the echo chamber of television and the thickets of comment-board conspiracy, evenings dedicated to The Archaeology of Knowledge and Simulacra and Simulation.
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Changing platform algorithms so social media does not simply become an echo chamber may also help.
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First Known Use of echo chamber
circa 1937
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