echo chamber

noun

|Updated on: 5 Aug 2018

Definition of echo chamber

: 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

Recent Examples of echo chamber from the Web

Google and other companies like Facebook have been criticized for promoting fake news and for personalizing content to such a degree that users can live within their own echo chambers and info-bubbles.

— valentina palladino, Ars Technica, "Google News gets Material Design look, better personalization with AI," 8 May 2018
Gab even left its own echo chamber to post an update on its Twitter account, where it would be seen by the masses.

— NBC News, "Trolls spread hateful fake Starbucks coupon," 19 Apr. 2018
Listeners are well acquainted with my right-of-center viewpoint, and quite frankly, exchanging high fives and attaboys in an echo chamber makes for a pretty boring afternoon drive.

— jeremy barr, The Hollywood Reporter, "Conservative Radio Host: How I Got Pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen," 12 July 2018
But polarization, along with social media echo chambers, probably puts a floor on both how high a modern president can go and how far one can fall.

— ezra klein, Vox, "The messy reality of Donald Trump’s poll numbers," 5 July 2018
The Democrats have gambled again on their ability to score against the president by scandalizing politically correct opinion and having their shrill mouthpieces in the national media blast this one around the echo chamber one more time.

— conrad black, National Review, "The Exhausted Racism Charge," 17 Jan. 2018
And Fox echo chamber is helping that cause as well.

— NBC News, "Meet the Press - July 1, 2018," 1 July 2018
Born of this meeting was the echo chamber of ideas, studies, and surveys that the pharmaceutical industry has used to buffer an increasingly indefensible system against regular episodes of public outrage and political challenge.

— alexander zaitchik, The New Republic, "How Big Pharma Was Captured by the One Percent," 28 June 2018
What was a network confined mostly to the right-wing media echo chamber has become mainstream for all the worst reasons.

— jay willis, GQ, "Fox News CEO Asks That On-Air Talent Be Slightly Less Racist Monsters," 28 June 2018

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