Echo chamber

Fake news, anonymous trolls, algorithms that foster echo chambers and promote hate speech: The digital challenges to contemporary public discourse are vast and well-documented. Such is the furor around them that a few analysts have gone as far as to claim that "the internet is drowning today's democracies."

In the era of "fake news" and social media echo chambers, Venice's Biennale art fair is challenging preconceived biases by suggesting other ways of contextualizing modern society's biggest issues.

British electronic dance duo Matt Black and Jonathan More of Coldcut fame - renowned for their pioneering work in sampling and remixing in the 1980s and pushing the boundaries of the genre ever since - are stopping in Thessaloniki as part of the band's 30th anniversary tour, for one show at Principal on Saturday, December 9.