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Chris Bail - Online Extremism, Trolls, & the Myth of the Echo Chamber

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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What Is False Polarization?

This is something that was around before social media. People are going to way exaggerate how extreme the other side is and underestimate how ideological their own side is. A simple 15 minute conversation between a republican and a democrat in a library m can move our opinions of each other by about 15 per centage points on a hundred point scale, which is a huge effect,. especially in such polarized times.

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