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Has political polarization been misunderstood? (with Nick Gillespie)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Twitter Feedback Loops

I did an analysis of intellectuals on Twitter and what their most popular tweets were. The most disturbing category was when people call out a person in power, especially someone who's polarizing where like some people love them and some people hate them. And I think it feels to me that that sort of the thing when we associate something like Twitter with like toxic behavior. It's because there is a genuine reward that people get from not to say that calling out bad people in power is necessarily a bad thing but sometimes it's a bad thing. But whether it's good or bad, depending on the case, like they're getting a reward for that.

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