New game can help users identify, avoid online echo chambers

Photo caption: The novel design of ChamberBreaker is based on three psychological theories […] Credit: Penn State. Article by Jessica Hallman, Pennsylvania State University. Phys.org – October 15, 2021.

Every day, social media users are exposed to fake news and political polarization on social networks. What makes people vulnerable to believing false information they find online?

According to researchers at the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, users can easily fall into an echo chamber—a sort of online rabbit hole through which users consume only one-sided news and political arguments, eventually distrusting any opposing views. To combat this […]

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