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As a side note, those two links at the end are certainly interesting - I must admit I was on the filter bubble bandwagon but this is pretty compelling: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/truth...

also on polarization: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/40/10612

The conclusion: "Many authors point to the Internet in general and social media in particular as possible drivers of political polarization. We find that polarization has increased the most among the groups least likely to use the Internet and social media. Under appropriate assumptions, these facts can be shown to imply a limited role for the Internet and social media in explaining the recent rise in measured political polarization."




> We find that polarization has increased the most among the groups least likely to use the Internet and social media.

This could imply dominant second-order effects. Traditional media has changed its content & form radically in response to the Internet.


If you want to go further down this rabbit hole, I'd recommend "Why We're Polarized" by Ezra Klein. It acts as a synthesis for a bunch of work just like this.


That PNAS paper has some interesting analysis on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fco...




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