Echo Chamber

Food for thoughts..


In discussions of news media, an echo chamber refers to situations in which beliefs are amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition inside a closed system and insulated from rebuttal. By participating in an echo chamber, people are able to seek out information that reinforces their existing views without encountering opposing views, potentially resulting in an unintended exercise in confirmation bias. Echo chambers may increase social and political polarization and extremism. On social media, it is thought that echo chambers limit exposure to diverse perspectives, and favour and reinforce presupposed narratives and ideologies.

The Internet has expanded the variety and amount of accessible political information. On the positive side, this may create a more pluralistic form of public debate; on the negative side, greater access to information may lead to selective exposure to ideologically supportive channels. In an extreme "echo chamber", one purveyor of information will make a claim, which many like-minded people then repeat, overhear, and repeat again (often in an exaggerated or otherwise distorted form) until most people assume that some extreme variation of the story is true.

The echo chamber effect occurs online when a harmonious group of people amalgamate and develop tunnel vision. Participants in online discussions may find their opinions constantly echoed back to them, which reinforces their individual belief systems due to the declining exposure to other's opinions. Their individual belief systems are what culminate into a confirmation bias regarding a variety of subjects. When an individual wants something to be true, they often will only gather the information that supports their existing beliefs and disregard any statements they find that are contradictory or speak negatively upon their beliefs. Individuals who participate in echo chambers often do so because they feel more confident that their opinions will be more readily accepted by others in the echo chamber. This happens because the Internet has provided access to a wide range of readily available information. People are receiving their news online more rapidly through less traditional sources, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. These and many other social platforms and online media outlets have established personalized algorithms intended to cater specific information to individuals’ online feeds. This method of curating content has replaced the function of the traditional news editor.The mediated spread of information through online networks causes a risk of an algorithmic filter bubble, leading to concern regarding how the effects of echo chambers on the internet promote the division of online interaction.

It is important to note that members of an echo chamber are not fully responsible for their convictions. Once part of an echo chamber, an individual might adhere to seemingly acceptable epistemic practices and still be further misled. Many individuals may be stuck in echo chambers due to factors existing outside of their control, such as being raised in one.

The echo chamber you speak of is the non Fox, MSM, all of it.

You only need to watch the videos of every anchor on CNN, MSNBC, et al, all speaking the EXACT same statement, day after day ever day.

It was like "Gravitasse" for example, or, "Existential", never heard them before, an, one day everything is an existential crisis, or someone had gravitasse.

This is why Fox is so scary to them, because more people are watching prime time fox, than all the rest of them combined.

Or, the recent don't say gay bullshit, which, is nowhere to be found in the actual bill attempting to stop coaching and grooming pre-pubescent yutes in Florida.

... And the FACT that Twitter and Facebook want to censure
any and all content that the officials don't agree-with.

How can you have FAIRNESS and "FREEDOM of SPEECH" that way?

#### Salty

“Echo chambers may increase social and political polarization”

Yep….some peeps just don’t understand that. But hey….it’s a free country.

“Echo chambers may increase social and political polarization”

Yep….some peeps just don’t understand that. But hey….it’s a free country. Originally Posted by Charley3

Oh, I completely get it, just look at the continuous rioting of 2020, which was all blown out of proportion by the MSM, ignored by the big Dem leaders, and paid for by Soros.

All in a part of the coordinated effort to get Trump out of office.

You only need to watch the videos of every anchor on CNN, MSNBC, et al, all speaking the EXACT same statement, day after day . Originally Posted by Devo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI

A lot of Fox in there.

Here’s an article that explains it:

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/201...ript-explained