Rise of Le Pen shows scale of polarization
Demonstrators take part in a rally against the far right following the announcement of the results of the first round…
Pedaling beats polarization in a huge, cross-Iowa bike ride
WEST LIBERTY, Iowa (AP) — Bob Molsberry was a college student when he first watched the recreational bike ride that…
What Meta’s New Studies Do—and Don’t—Reveal About Social Media and Polarization
Last week, the first papers from a collaboration between Meta's Facebook and a team of external researchers studying the 2020…
Research finds social media doesn’t create polarization, but reinforces it
Comment on this storyCommentFor years, regulators and activists have worried that social media companies’ algorithms were dividing the United States…
‘It’s not simple’: Researchers tweaked Facebook’s algorithms to see if they could fix America’s political polarization. They failed
The powerful algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram to deliver content to users have increasingly been blamed for amplifying misinformation…
