social media echo chamber

The social media echo chamber is not as bad as we think.

Echo chamber definition: When you only interact with like-minded people on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc, both the platforms and you yourself filter what information reaches you, and you become exposed to only views similar to yours. You lose an objective view of reality and become biased due to this limited and distorted exposure. This article suggests that online disharmony is not caused so much by limited exposure, but by how people react to what they are exposed to. So, not that there is no problem, just that the causes may be different from what we thought. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180416-the-myth-of-the-online-echo-chamber