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information bubble

[ in-fer-mey-shuhn buhb-uhl ]

noun

  1. Digital Technology. a pop-up image or window on a website with supplementary information:

    The gallery website has information bubbles with artist biographies and other interesting facts that appear when you hover the pointer over a painting.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of information bubble1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Example Sentences

“The Putin regime is based on propaganda and fear. And propaganda plays the most important role because people live in an information bubble,” said Marina Ovsyannikova, a former state television journalist who quit her job at a leading Russian state television channel in an on-air protest against the war.

Utterly alienated from mainstream culture and mainstream higher education and scholarship, which is often viewed with suspicion, these people live in an information bubble in which their version of reality is constantly repeated and reinforced.

From Salon

Learn more about the mainstream media’s fallacious information bubble on “Russiagate” HERE.

“The information bubble is very serious,” Zhao said.

Since his ouster, Mr. Stirewalt has become an outspoken critic of his former employer and what he has described as an information bubble that is doing a disservice to Trump supporters.

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