This is a randomized experiment so important to the notion that Facebook (likely also Twitter and YouTube) causally fuel polarization. (Repost, typo, where’s my edit button, etc.)https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1090682557761576960 …
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Replying to @zeynep @davidlazer
And political knowledge. Perhaps in current environment, political knowledge increases polarization?
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Replying to @deaneckles @zeynep
It is certainly plausible that the reduction in polarization is partially driving the reduction in polarization. That would pose a bit of a democratic dilemma; in ignorance we can all agree...
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Obviously, the normative aspect is without one answer... Societies clearly need some mechanisms to pull to "center"/consensus and also, obviously, legitimate dynamics of polarization. But whatever one's answer might be, any fast transition in the mechanims is super challenging.
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It may be possible to stabilize and prosper under the new regime, but getting from one to the other is no easy feat. (I am not going to start a discussion of the Thirty Years' War here but transitions are tough
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