Quote:I think you all are onto something with the technology. The very nature of the online news experience is that it is more personalized than ever before. In the 1970s and even 80s, you had fewer choices in where you got your information from so most people were working off the same general information. Once the internet gets to know you, you get stories that reinforce what you already believe or have shown interest in. Instead of at least hearing the other side and using your brain to sift and filter information, you get to live in an echo chamber where your own ideas are parroted back to you and it plays on your confirmation bias. Eventually you get to the point where any news that you might hear that doesn't fit inside of your values system, you will take it as evidence of left/ring/corporate ect. bias and you will defend your own echo chamber. Of course while all this is happening, people are shutting themselves off to anything else and so they drift to their respective corners of the political spectrum.