Bridging echo chambers fails without cross-partisan trust
Evidence
We also show why some of the most obvious interventions to reduce the spread of propaganda and fake news, such as breaking down barriers that prevent the spread of reliable information between different communities, are unlikely to succeed. To learn from people whose views differ from ours, we need to be connected to them, but we also need to trust them enough to believe what they share. In a polarized political environment, that sort of trust is hard to come by. — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age, 62
Categorization
- XREF: Reverses the naive ‘connect the bubbles’ solution; consistent with the finding that reputation systems need trust before information can flow, as in the law-merchant material. — connects to: Agreement on unrelated topics buys trust that propagandists exploit — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 465; The echo chamber hypothesis about political blogging remains empirically contested — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 108; Echo chambers are porous to networking yet resist dissonant voices. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 46 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Power asymmetry blocks trust because the weaker party cannot credibly threaten exit
#corroborates(0.80) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 481 - The echo chamber hypothesis about political blogging remains empirically contested
#qualifies(0.75) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 108 - Scholarly networks create echo chambers that sideline marginal knowledge
#complicates(0.75) — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe, 116 - Echo chambers are porous to networking yet resist dissonant voices.
#qualifies(0.72) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 46