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Echo Chambers and the Silo Effect
For hours, every day, the man scoured forums. Fora? Forae? He scoured, anyway. He thought he was hunting down answers, but only more questions seemed to satisfy. Answers you had to live with. Questions were great for blame. Even better, they moved the work off of him.
He posted. He down-voted. Too angry to check the facts, he started pointing to memes as though they were evidence.
An online quiz. A break in the clicks and tepid drip of thinned-out, barbarous fury. As though the dark web were an IV line of code. The quiz asked what colour his eyes were.
He couldn't remember.
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