The End of the Echo Chamber
Today, Facebook is publishing a study that disproves some hoary conventional wisdom about the Web. According to this new research, the online echo chamber doesn’t exist.
Facebook did a non-peer-reviewed study on its own network, that hinged heavily on its secret EdgeRank algorithm and — surprise — got results that are very good PR for Facebook. This is awfully familiar! Slate’s eating that shit up, without having seen the study, of course, with only a token mention of the obvious bias. I wish we were better at skepticism, people that read and report on technology.
