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#580 Emily Kubin: Political Polarization, Dehumanization, and the Media

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Do You Think the Media Could Play a Role in the Cove 19 Pandemic?

Fred Kaplan: I was trying to understand if, for example, stuff like the two fosenanate economic crisis, and now, more recently, the covin 19 pendemic. If those factors could play the role in why people would be motivated to increasingly communicate extreme information about their political opponents. So do you think that to solve issues like effective polorization and reducing it, the medie could play a role? And if so, do you have y interventions that could be thunder? Yes. It's very easy for us to blame our political adversaries for these things m rather than working together to find a solution.

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