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Re:Obama warns against irresponsible social media use by adrianratnapala on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:48PM (#16017463)
What is the current state of empirical evidence about echo chambers and filter bubbles?

The last time I read about it, the 3rd hand reports I was getting said that they were less of a problem than you might imagine, because political junkie types actually did read stuff from the other side. Perhaps becaue, they were so into politics that they did some kind of "opposition research".

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Re:Obama warns against irresponsible social media use by gt_ on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:04PM (#16017588)
I think that’s an extreme minority, and the benefit would be limited.

The notion of sides in political media deteriorates the conversation into an argument, which at some point undermines an audience’s fundamental awareness and understanding of issues.

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