ONLINE spaces criticised as ‘echo chambers’ are actually wonderful places to meet intelligent, educated people with correct views, according to their users.
Whether MAGA supporters on Twitter, boomers on Facebook or the woke on BlueSky, social media that reinforce your pre-existing prejudices are populated with smart, lovely people who talk simple common sense nobody rational could dispute.
Professor Henry Brubaker, of the Institute for Studies, said: “Disagreement is unpleasant, especially if the person involved has a valid point.
“Unlike pubs or offices where this kind of nastiness is always a risk, a carefully chosen echo chamber is full of intellectuals who’ve done the thinking and come up with conclusions that exactly mirror yours. Such lovely people.
“Here everyone has the right opinions whether on the genius of Elon Musk, the wonder of Angela Rayner or Alien 3 being underrated.But be careful not to pop into the wrong echo chamber. Everyone there has cretinous views and won’t thank you for a fact-check.”
Reform voter Martin Bishop said: “Yeah, I went into one comments section and they actually thought Starmer was doing a decent job, rather than having reduced Britain to a scorched wasteland populated only by woke ghosts. I mean, uh?
“Thankfully I soon found the correct one, where everyone was also dead-on right about VAR being viciously biased against Arsenal.”
