echo chamber
nounDefinition 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
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After all, having a close circle of friends could have meant that women were living in an echo chamber, cut off from important insights. — Roberta Kwok, Quartz at Work, "To land top jobs, women need different types of networks than men," 12 Aug. 2019 The central target of these manipulations from abroad — and the chief instrument of the Swedish nationalists’ success — is the country’s increasingly popular, and virulently anti-immigrant, digital echo chamber. — Jo Becker, New York Times, "The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism," 10 Aug. 2019 Partisans have praised it as an egalitarian tool with limitless potential, while others have decried it as a vanity machine that spits out echo chambers and severs real human connection. — Brian P. Kelly, WSJ, "‘I Was Raised on the Internet’ Review: Binary Reactions to the Digital World," 15 Sep. 2018 Some sections of the Gold Star story are told with care and clarity, like how Gold developed his famous echo chambers and what made Gold Studios so special. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: ‘House of Dreams’ tells fascinating, if blazing-paced story," 8 Aug. 2019 For videos, people are going to social media, which is struggling with fake news and is also an ideological echo chamber. — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, "TV anchor Vikram Chandra bets on AI-powered short videos to fix India’s broken news scene," 29 July 2019 Second, remember that what flits through our newsfeeds often comes via algorithms that enable news to careen through our echo chambers and elicit confirmation bias, factual or not. — The Conversation, "Confused about what to eat? Science can help," 5 July 2019 Her love songs are often about passions held in secret, in the echo chamber of the narrator’s heart, and the over-all effect is often surreal: the beloved is rendered solipsistically, and the pledges of devotion are unsettling. — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, "On the Road with Mitski," 1 July 2019 The community was an echo chamber, witnesses said, and dissenters were subject to recrimination. — Colin Moynihan, New York Times, "Nxivm: How a Sex Cult Leader Seduced and Programmed His Followers," 14 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'echo chamber.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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