Confirmation Bias In 1984 By George Orwell

The book, 1984 by George Orwell, clearly shows a Post-Factual world, where facts may or may not be true, and that world is much alike to ours. Today, facts do not matter as the internet has given a platform for everyone to create their own facts. Social networking sites gave that platform an easy way to spread false facts. In today’s Post-Factual world, the usage of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, results in a society only trusting themselves and beliefs they agree with through oversupply of facts and confirmation bias and the creation of micro-communities of the same beliefs. Social Media and in turn the internet created an oversupply of facts through the creation of too much data. Data is being constantly generated

Some people believe in Bush did 9/11 because of their confirmation bias. If someone posts that 9\11 was an inside job, then someone says they saw the planes go into the Twin Towers but then the person counters with a false fact such as Jet Fuel can’t melt steel beams. The person who believes in the 9\11 conspiracy theory uses his confirmation bias to believe in false facts that support his beliefs. That is why conspiracy theories are still around. When you try to debunk false facts, you are actually helping people believe those same false facts. “Repetition increased perceived truthfulness, even for contradictions of well-known facts.”( https://psmag.com/the-persuasive-power-of-repeated-falsehoods-870853bb9ac#.o29bqsnwa) And social networking sites are the perfect ground to share false facts, which in turn causes people to believe in those false facts. An example is how Trump repeats the same false facts but then his supporters believe in those facts and debunking the facts only helps Trumps supporters believe in the facts even

You stop following that person’s account so you don’t see those crazy posts on your news feed. Now people do this when anyone disagrees with their beliefs. This is called the Echo Chamber effect. The Echo Chamber Effect creates micro-communities of like-minded people, which in turns gives the false impression that their opinions align with the majority. The Echo Chamber Effect is helped by the social media algorithm that will show you posts that agree with your beliefs so you will spend more times on their site. For example, “On Twitter, for instance, people who tweet about politics tend to tweet primarily at and with people who belong to the same party, creating what one team of researchers called “pockets of political polarization.”” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/16/you-might-think-trump-is-bad-but-unfriending-his-supporters-on-facebook-is-worse/?utm_term=.f03a3a7df113) This polarization is prevalent in the people that during the election unfriended Trump supporters. You are creating a digital wall to protect yourself from Trump just like how Trump wants to build a wall to protect the United States from