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The fact that she won the popular vote has to do with the US electoral system nothing else. The actual things that hurt Hillary weren't some FB campaign by Russ

The fact that she won the popular vote has to do with the US electoral system nothing else. The actual things that hurt Hillary weren't some FB campaign by Russians as it was dwarfed by the amount of money she used herself on facebook. Echo chamber has to do with not hearing other arguments than those you already agree with. Before the social media, it was much harder to get outside of that echo chamber because you weren't exposed to opposing thoughts as you are now. We have literally never been better informed on a different perspective than we are today, whether some people choose to ignore facts as ex with a lot of the conspiracy nuts have absolutely nothing to do with social media. It's always been like that exhibit A being 9/11.

Blondisla 9y ago
Social media doesn't make it easier to get out of the echo chamber. It encourages you to stay, by feeding you a constant drip of content you're likely to agree with. If you're one of those conspiracy nuts, you can tailor your twitter feed to get all your news from Brietbart and Infowars. This was possible before the internet, just not as easy. I agree that the electoral college is a larger issue, and I agree that democrats can't lay all the blame on russian interference. But any difference the Russians made was helped by microtargeting. Facebook knows way more about it's users than any traditional media outlet knows about it's audience.
- ThomPete 9y ago
  Compared to living in a small village only listening to opinions from the news it definitely is getting out of the echo chamber. Your feed is a combination of many things among others who your interact with. If you are a person who only want to hang out with people who believe exactly like you then sure. But most people aren't like that they have friends based on where they came from if it's facebook or based on what they are into ex. like with twitter. You didn't use to have that much access to other peoples opininions as you have today. I am simply not seing anything to back what you are saying up.

Blondisla 9y ago

Social media doesn't make it easier to get out of the echo chamber. It encourages you to stay, by feeding you a constant drip of content you're likely to agree with. If you're one of those conspiracy nuts, you can tailor your twitter feed to get all your news from Brietbart and Infowars. This was possible before the internet, just not as easy. I agree that the electoral college is a larger issue, and I agree that democrats can't lay all the blame on russian interference. But any difference the Russians made was helped by microtargeting. Facebook knows way more about it's users than any traditional media outlet knows about it's audience.

ThomPete 9y ago
Compared to living in a small village only listening to opinions from the news it definitely is getting out of the echo chamber. Your feed is a combination of many things among others who your interact with. If you are a person who only want to hang out with people who believe exactly like you then sure. But most people aren't like that they have friends based on where they came from if it's facebook or based on what they are into ex. like with twitter. You didn't use to have that much access to other peoples opininions as you have today. I am simply not seing anything to back what you are saying up.