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Steven Pinker Dialogue
The Munk Debates Podcast
Is Social Media to Blame for the Breakdown of Our Popular Discourse?
Yi: Social media isn't solely or wholly to blame for the breakdown, the disfunctionality of our popular discourse. He says there's just too muchglib blaming of every social problem and political problem on social mediam without adequate testing in knowledge. Some cases they very well might be, but some of the things attributed to them are probably exaggerations. Like fake news probably has little to no effect on election outcome, simply because it's so outlandish that unless you were a hyperpartisan to begin with, you would just blow it off. Other forces that certainly do move the needle, especially in the united states, hyper partisan cable news networks like fox news have shown that they really do
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