Is a President Trump the Proof of a Fundamentally Biased and Elitist American Mainstream Media?
People surround themselves with other people who have similar views and opinions. And people of certain views and opinions tend to refer to similar sources for information. So when one looks for certain information, and go to their regular sources (whether it be friends' posts on SNS or news outlets), they see only one side of the story that they agree with. Given the universally unanimous opinion expressed in their social cycles, they falsely believe that the views they agree with are shared by intelligent people and are definitely in the majority, while the radical fringe has some extremist perspectives.