Informational Monoculture

Informational monoculture is a condition in which an information ecosystem relies on a small number of sources, channels, or validation mechanisms, eliminating the redundancy that would enable error correction. It is the epistemic equivalent of agricultural monoculture: efficient in the short term, vulnerable to catastrophic failure in the long term.

Informational monoculture arises from platform capitalism, algorithmic curation, and the consolidation of media ownership. It increases epistemic entropy by reducing the diversity of perspectives and the independence of validation channels.