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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Of course, internal squabbles like this barely register outside the crypto echo chamber. Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025 Wednesday was a breakout hit in 2022, breaking free from the echo chamber of Netflix to flood TikTok and Instagram feeds the world over. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 7 June 2025 Elon has made the platform formerly known as Twitter into an echo chamber for Trump-adjacent voices. Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025 The perception of bias comes from the fact that far-right echo chambers objectively spread more misinformation and are therefore impacted more even under politically neutral platform policies. Sander Van Der Linden, Time, 6 May 2025 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 17 Jun. 2025.

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