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
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Worried about his parents’ well-being, Noah ventures out of his liberal Brooklyn echo chamber to travel home to Virginia.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
My advice is to make every effort to escape your echo chamber, resist reading Reddit, and by all means ignore the clickbait on social media from companies claiming to have the secret formula to being admitted to highly selective colleges.
—Brennan Barnard, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Political scientists have identified long-standing trends that have contributed to the deepening polarization of Congress, including the growing ideological homogeneity of each party and the breakdown of the media into echo chambers.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
When dystopian politics make the grasp of reality a shifting target, while news cycles amplify discord, and social media reinforce already harrowing echo chambers, our daily interactions can leave us bewildered by the seemingly foreign logic of others.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Vulture Editors, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
My advice is to make every effort to escape your echo chamber, resist reading Reddit, and by all means ignore the clickbait on social media from companies claiming to have the secret formula to being admitted to highly selective colleges.
—Brennan Barnard, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Political scientists have identified long-standing trends that have contributed to the deepening polarization of Congress, including the growing ideological homogeneity of each party and the breakdown of the media into echo chambers.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
When dystopian politics make the grasp of reality a shifting target, while news cycles amplify discord, and social media reinforce already harrowing echo chambers, our daily interactions can leave us bewildered by the seemingly foreign logic of others.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Echo chamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/echo%20chamber. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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