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In our brave new world of alternate facts and fake news, this is no small task. Especially when social media titans like Facebook not only create these digital content silos, but also perpetuate and thrive off of the resulting segregation.

“Facebook’s business model is basically to build the echo chamber. The fundamental human condition they’re working with is loneliness — you log in to participate in a community of other people and don’t have to feel lonely for a minute.”

Because echo chambers fulfill the human needs of validation and connection, they drive higher usage of hours and intensity of use on social media platforms, thereby creating an inherent incentive for Facebook to maintain this model.

political content differently from other organically customized content on Facebook and other platforms as a means to prevent digital silos, but only time will tell whether that will be an effective means to counter this phenomenon. “Or,” he states, “society will just have grow up and learn how to live with this.”


In the absence of data, humans make decisions based on what they feel, what others tells them, or what they can glean from minimal experience. But experience is only a fraction of the data greece whatsapp number data you can collect through collective observation. That’s why Dan describes data as the “grease of decision-making,” and why the members of the Civis Analytics team proudly describe themselves as “harbingers of truth, masters of data science.”

“We do tons of work in the public sector, and it’s horrendous sometimes to just get basic information… If you had the data, and that data could be shared and manipulated, you could create a basic awareness of what’s going on in the public sector. You could provide opportunities for people to extract that, and provide basic metrics around it, and then ideally in 2–5yrs, provide the opportunity for data scientists to use it.”

Through the proliferation of open data and the subsequent democratization of access to a shared source of truth, we can begin to reverse the echo chamber effect that has fractured our society into disparate factions.

“The important thing, whether it’s a campaign or a company, is to have a theoretical and empirical discussion around how are things changing, where are things changing, and what do we need to build toward.”

This data-driven discourse has the power to break down the silos that separate us. It is the escape hatch for the echo chamber.