online discourse is playing ahead of the election he too has noticed that fake news stories have become part of the german election campaign. moment times i think with the before and the biggest danger i see at the moment is that fake news is creating a climate where people don't believe anything anymore then they just turn to their own networks here in germany we are seeing new network structures the very dense networks on the right wing where people live in a kind of echo chamber where all they hear are things that confirm what they already believe. in mine and that can lead to an extreme polarization of society. when users read only content that matches their opinion it's called an echo chamber it's a perfect incubated for fake news stories here's how it works a statistic released by the gate stone institute sixteen hundred knife attacks in