Your Echo Chamber is Destroying Democracy

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On November 7, 2016, the day before the US election, I compared the number of social media followers, website performance, and Google search statistics of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

I noticed that the second most popular article shared on social media in the last six months with words "Donald Trump" in the headline, "Why I'm Voting For Donald Trump", had been shared 1.5 million times.

According to Pew Research, 61 percent of millennials use Facebook as their primary source for news about politics and government, but Facebook refuses to acknowledge its identity as a news source.

As a Muslim, an African Arab, and an immigrant, I will probably be among those most impacted by Trump's presidency, but I refuse to believe that half of America is racist.

The social bubbles that Facebook and Google have designed for us are shaping the reality of your America.

Until the election results, a little more than half of us didn't realize that the other half of the country was frustrated enough to elect Trump.

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