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The Impact of Social Media on Discourse Polarization
The 2016 US primaries did not follow the expected pattern based on the median voter theorem./nSocial media encourages individuals to align with ideological tribes and become more extreme to raise their status within the tribe./nThe discourse in politics becomes more polarized as a result of people aligning with ideological tribes on social media.