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#580 Emily Kubin: Political Polarization, Dehumanization, and the Media

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Is There a Correlation Between Social Media and Political Opposition?

I don't know if there's been research on the direct connection of, like, seeing something on one piece of media and having it directly predict tea specific behavior. But i would argue that there is definitly some kind of correlation. There's soething, something going on here. I haven't seen a the explicit test of direct like, this cause that, but i think it is very hard to to argue. In most science anyway, causation is very difficultit's very difficult. It might be also an important issue to try to uncover it.

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