How Confirmation Bias Hacks Your Brain

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No matter how hard one might try echo chambers and filter bubbles that social media has filtered us and our information into aren’t going anywhere. The revelation that Facebook data collection could have been used by illicit actors to target an election is only a part of the problem. The willful consent to share our own information, political views, and cherry-picked sources of news is the far larger problem and has led to mass polarization and tribalism in online communities.