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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Is it a cause or just endogenous I think is the biggest question. I read
@jacobinmag because I'm a progressive who is interested in what leftists have to say on the news of the day. They aren't making me more extreme -
I just don't see a scenario in which socialization dynamics (which social media mobilizes when you don't just read stuff but you react to it publicly and in groups) don't affect people. Thorny and hard to measure but socialization is always potent. What else is human societies?
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