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Amol Rajan Interviews...

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Is Social Media Making Political Dilemma Harder?

Do you worry that we are seeing a kind of really severe toxicification, a decline in the public domain where being able to disagree respectfully is getting very, very hard? That would be very bad. The degree of political polarization in the U.S., and we see that somewhat outside the United States is higher than it's ever been in my lifetime. And it scares me. I don't blame digital media for all of that, but it does seem to magnify it. So I hope that smart young people can take and shape these digital forms to be more constructive and get rid of the negative things.

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