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Re:Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source c... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:34PM (#15235066)
> Echo chambers are ultimately self-defeating as they bring on more divisiveness and intolerance.

But they are excellent at driving activity => pageviews. Which is where the money for newspapers comes from. Nothing to be said beyond that - the induction of outrage and divisiveness is a desired feature, not a bug, from the POV of media companies.

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