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Chris Bail - Online Extremism, Trolls, & the Myth of the Echo Chamber
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
Breaking the Social Media Prism
The author says social media is not an accurate representation of what the world thinks of you. It's a heavily filtered sort of prism like experience where you're seeing mostly a small group of people with pretty radical views generating most of the content. For some one who's isolated and dabbling in extremism, i think pretty queerly pretty quickly, they can come to confuse extremism with more normal views. We've known about this type of tendency for 50, 60 years - it's called the false consensus effect. And so i think the that social media has just accelerated them.
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