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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Saturday's cartoons - winter is coming, deflation, and more Newsletter sign up By The Week US published yesterday Subscribe to The Week Escape your echo chamber. The Week Us, theweek, 9 Nov. 2024 Trump-world's hyper-confidence and their partisan media echo chambers — along with the former president's continued assertions of voter fraud — set the stage for post-election fighting, Axios' Zachary Basu reports. Axios, 3 Nov. 2024 Musk has effectively turned the platform into a far-right social network and echo chamber, not unlike Rumble and Truth Social. Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024 The algorithm’s allergy to echo chambers is an asset. Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for echo chamber 

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of echo chamber was in 1842

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“Echo chamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/echo%20chamber. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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