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

As users clicked, shared, and argued, social media turned into an echo chamber that amplified extreme voices and buried nuance. —Jeremy H. Gottschalk, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

For me, in making Torn, one of my most important goals was to break the echo chambers and polarization, and hopefully invite a conversation. —Eitan Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025

Through this approach, Active Clubs have built a transnational network of echo chambers, recruitment pipelines and paramilitary-style training in parks and gyms. —Art Jipson, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025

An unsupervised generative model that exclusively relies on content from you, the user, can create an echo chamber for its output. —Varuna Srinivasan, Allure, 25 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for echo chamber

• antechamber
• bedchamber