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amplification

[am-pluh-fi-key-shuhn] / ˌæm plə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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"Iran has crafted a wartime propaganda strategy tailored for the age of AI slop and algorithmic amplification," Joseph Bodnar, a senior research manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

If Charlottesville taught journalists to be wary of amplifying ideology, the current moment demands an understanding that, in an attention economy, amplification itself is the ideology.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

To analyst Declan Bonnick, DUG’s share-price weakness “reflects an amplification of a broader market/U.S. software/software-as-a-service stock AI threat selloff.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Stark, discomforting amplification diminishes intimacy and the luxurious richness of Bullock’s soprano, which easily fills a room on its own, suggests quiet terror, the lonely state of Nina Simone’s “Images.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

What to others would have been a muffling was to her alert senses, which were fine-tuned like the cats whiskers of an old wireless, an almost unbearable amplification.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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