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Echo chamber

An information environment where every source repeats the same view, so agreement feels like verification.

Feeds are optimised for engagement, and agreement is engaging. Follow and mute for a few months and you assemble a world in which your thesis is obviously correct and the other side is stupid.

For a trader the practical harm is a missing risk case. You cannot price what would make you wrong if you have never seen it argued well. Echo chambers are also where a pump finds its participants, because manufactured enthusiasm is indistinguishable from consensus inside the room.

Deliberately keep two or three credible sources who disagree with your usual positioning. The test of a good opposing source is that reading it is mildly annoying rather than absurd.

Related: groupthink, social-proof, confirmation-bias, finfluencer

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