Chris Bail - Online Extremism, Trolls, & the Myth of the Echo Chamber
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
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Breaking the Social Mediaprism, How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
The author of a book called breaking the social mediaprism, how to make our platforms less polarizing. We all tend to think that social media fosters extremism because of information sylos and that we're just not getting exposed to the perspective of the other side. Your research has found that to not be true. You know, i sort of thought this was the most promising explanation of what ails us. And it's an information problem, right?
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