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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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Cable News Networks, You Know, Have a Small Audience, Right?

The media talk so much about polarization and how bad everything is, but in reality the data look much, much better than you think. The medium matters at so many levels. Even though social mediu has democratized things like that, for every tucker carlson, there's some random t najure who has a lot of influence. We are profoundly underestimating how important those types of legacy or older media systems are.

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