Echo Chamber

There is an alarming ease with which social media and the internet as a whole can be abused, and used to prop up dubious narratives. Cyberbullying, troll factories, campaigns of misinformation facilitated by alternative news sites where actual accuracy can no longer be taken for granted. This proliferation of urban myths and conspiracies would perhaps be laughable if it weren’t so uniquely dangerous. We trigger algorithms that curate our feeds. These cherry-pick things with which we are likely to agree and jettison information that does not appear to fit our preferences – often at the cost of accuracy and balance. Rumours and gossip get in the flow, and we begin to lose our ability to diffe...View all