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In recent years, social media companies like Facebook and Twitter have played an influential role in political discourse, intensifying political sectarianism. 0.900

👤 15 researchers 📋 News Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Social media companies like Facebook and Twitter have intensified political sectarianism.

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A few days later, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs and communication, <a href="https://nickclegg.medium.com/you-and-the-algorithm-it-takes-two-to-tango-7722b19aa1c2" target="_b... 0.900

👤 Nick Clegg 📋 News Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics , Polarization

Simplified: Nick Clegg argued evidence does not support social media as unambiguous driver of polarization.

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Our central conclusion, based on a review of more than 50 social science studies and interviews with more than 40 academics, policy experts, activists, and current and former industry people, is that... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics , Technology

Simplified: Facebook YouTube Twitter exacerbate political polarization but are not root causes.

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has on multiple occasions dismissed suggestions that his company stokes divisiveness. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics , Technology

Simplified: Mark Zuckerberg dismissed suggestions that Facebook stokes divisiveness.

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Meanwhile, federal prosecutors pursuing more than 600 criminal cases are relying on evidence gathered from social media accounts used to organize the attempt by Trump supporters to stop Congress from... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Government , Law , Social Media

Simplified: Federal prosecutors rely on social media evidence in 600+ criminal cases related to January 6.

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A report we recently published through the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University’s Stern School of Business sheds light on the relationship between tech platforms and the kind of... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Technology , Politics , Social Media , Research

Simplified: Report sheds light on relationship between tech platforms and extreme polarization.

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As both members of Congress and federal law enforcement agencies investigate the origins and execution of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the role social media played in the mayhem is... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics , Government

Simplified: Social media's role in the January 6 insurrection is emerging as a crucial issue.

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In turn, they find this can lead to the erosion of democratic values and partisan violence. 0.900

👤 Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims 📋 News Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Social media fueled polarization can lead to erosion of democratic values partisan violence

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Widespread use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media has fueled the fire of extreme polarization, Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims write. 1.000

👤 Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims 📋 News Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Paul Barrett Justin Hendrix Grant Sims write social media use has fueled extreme polarization

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Widespread use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media has fueled the fire of extreme polarization, Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims write. 0.900

👤 Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims 📋 News Article 🏷️ Technology , Politics , Social Media

Simplified: Paul Barrett Justin Hendrix Grant Sims write Widespread use of social media has fueled extreme polarization

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In turn, they find this can lead to the erosion of democratic values and partisan violence. 0.800

👤 Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Social Media

Simplified: They find social media use can lead to erosion of democratic values and partisan violence

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Widespread use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media has fueled the fire of extreme polarization, Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims write. 0.900

👤 Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims 📋 Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Paul Barrett Justin Hendrix Grant Sims write Facebook Twitter YouTube other social media widespread use has fueled extreme polarization

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Widespread use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media has fueled the fire of extreme polarization, Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims write. 0.900

👤 Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims 📋 Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Facebook Twitter YouTube and other social media widespread use has fueled extreme polarization according to Paul Barrett Justin Hendrix and Grant Sims...

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Maximizing engagement increases polarization, especially within networks of like-minded users. 0.900

👤 The researchers 📋 Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Maximizing engagement increases polarization.

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“Social media technology employs popularity-based algorithms that tailor content to maximize user engagement,” the co-authors of the Science paper wrote. 0.900

👤 The co-authors of the Science paper 📋 Article 🏷️ Social Media , Technology

Simplified: Social media algorithms maximize user engagement.

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A paper published in March, based on a study of more than 17,000 Americans, found that Facebook’s content-ranking algorithm may limit users’ exposure to news outlets offering viewpoints contrary to th... 0.900

👤 A paper published in March 📋 Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Facebook's algorithm may increase polarization.

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Staying off the platform “significantly reduced polarization of views on policy issues,” researchers found, although it didn’t diminish divisiveness based strictly on party identity. 0.900

👤 Researchers 📋 Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Staying off Facebook reduced polarization of views on policy issues.

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Although social media is unlikely to be the main driver of polarization, they concluded, “we posit that it is often a key facilitator.” 0.900

👤 A separate quintet of researchers 📋 Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Social media is often a key facilitator of polarization.

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In recent years, social media companies like Facebook and Twitter have played an influential role in political discourse, intensifying political sectarianism. 0.900

👤 A group of 15 researchers 📋 Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Social media companies have intensified political sectarianism.

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A few days later, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs and communication, argued that “what evidence there is simply does not support the idea that social media, or the filter bubb... 0.900

👤 Nick Clegg 📋 Article 🏷️ Social Media , Politics

Simplified: Nick Clegg argued social media is not the unambiguous driver of polarization.

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