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- Facebook execs not happy own data showed it perpetuates right-wing echo chamber https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-right-wing-echo-chamber-data-executive-pushback-2021-7 9 comments
- Facebook 'echo chamber' makes people more narrow-minded – study https://www.rt.com/news/328177-facebook-narrow-minded-study/ 2 comments technology
- Social media's echo chamber fuels migrant backlash in Sweden, Finland - Refugees and migrants came to these Nordic countries in record numbers in 2015. Some Swedes and Finns are using Facebook and Twitter to voice opinions that would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago. http://www.cnet.com/news/refugee-crisis-europe-social-media-impact-on-sweden-finland/ 17 comments europe
- Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social media and echo chambers. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-opened-doors-researchers-found-paints-complicated-picture-soc-rcna96536 17 comments technology
- Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social media and echo chambers. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-opened-doors-researchers-found-paints-complicated-picture-soc-rcna96536?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=64c2c23cb68e980001a30507 3 comments technology
- Facebook execs weren't happy when their own data showed it perpetuates a right-wing echo chamber https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-right-wing-echo-chamber-data-executive-pushback-2021-7 3 comments stallmanwasright
- Facebook execs weren't happy when their own data showed it perpetuates a right-wing echo chamber https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-right-wing-echo-chamber-data-executive-pushback-2021-7 9 comments worldnews
- Facebook execs weren't happy when their own data showed it perpetuates a right-wing echo chamber https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-right-wing-echo-chamber-data-executive-pushback-2021-7 566 comments politics
- Facebook execs weren't happy when their own data showed it perpetuates a right-wing echo chamber https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-right-wing-echo-chamber-data-executive-pushback-2021-7 4232 comments technology
- Opinion | Facebook serves as an echo chamber, especially for conservatives. Blame its algorithm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/26/facebook-algorithm-conservative-liberal-extremes/ 9 comments politics
- Facebook serves as an echo chamber, especially for conservatives. Blame its algorithm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/26/facebook-algorithm-conservative-liberal-extremes/ 74 comments politics
- Facebook serves as an echo chamber, especially for conservatives. Blame its algorithm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/26/facebook-algorithm-conservative-liberal-extremes/ 53 comments technology
- Does Zuckerberg Understand How the Right to Free Speech Works? | A new audit warns that Facebook may be “driving people toward self-reinforcing echo chambers of extremism.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/facebook-civil-rights-audit.html 3 comments politics
- Is my Facebook page a liberal echo chamber? After I defriended an old acquaintance, I had to wonder: Why have I grown so intolerant of any dissent? http://www.salon.com/2011/10/22/is_my_facebook_page_a_liberal_echo_chamber/ 9 comments politics
- Tweaking Facebook feeds is no easy fix for polarization, studies find. Landmark research suggests that tweaking how people access news and other content on social-media platforms — to reduce the echo-chamber effect — doesn’t necessarily change their political opinions, knowledge or behaviour. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02420-z 10 comments science
- The echo chamber effect on social media: a new paper explores the key differences between the main social media platform (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Gab) and how they are likely to influence information spreading and echo chambers’ formation. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/9/e2023301118 10 comments science
- The myth of the online echo chamber: Contrary to popular belief, we now hear more diverse voices than ever before – studies suggest that most people do not live in Facebook or Twitter echo chambers and 'filter bubbles'. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180416-the-myth-of-the-online-echo-chamber 10 comments technology
- Facebook Flunks New Audit on Civil Rights, Hate Speech and Voter Suppression | Report warns that the social media company may be “driving people toward self-reinforcing echo chambers of extremism.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/facebook-civil-rights-audit.html 3 comments politics
- Facebook serves as an echo chamber. When a conservative visited Facebook more than usual, they read news that was far more partisan and conservative than the online news they usually read. But when a conservative used Reddit more than usual, they consumed unusually diverse and moderate news. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/26/facebook-algorithm-conservative-liberal-extremes/ 2752 comments science
- (Full paper) New study examines the effectiveness of debunking on Facebook through a quantitative analysis of 54 million users over a time span of five years (Jan 2010, Dec 2014). They find that both scientific and conspiracy echo chambers exist. Overall, "dissenting information online is ignored". http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181821 28 comments science