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Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated.
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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But they do fuel polarization in general. I'm sure of it.
Actually one of the conclusions from both the Science and Nature articles were that they mostly fuel far right radicalisation, not so much polarisation (which implies both ends of the political spectrum). Which I guess means leftists are generally either more capable of spotting misinformation or less inclined to act on it.
If it only drives the far-right, does that mean Facebook contributed shifting in window of discourse? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window)