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15 Sep, 5 tweets, 4 min read
This week @AuthorPMBarrett, Grant Sims and I published a report on the relationship between social media, political polarization and its consequences. This report by @JeffHorwitz & @keachhagey does more than confirm our conclusions- it shows it is a crisis.wsj.com/articles/faceb…
You can get the summary or link to the full report from @NYUSternBHR here: techpolicy.press/how-social-med…
Our report also handles this particular objection to the role of Facebook in exacerbating division, which is the company line:
As many have studied and hypothesized, OF COURSE politicians went nastier BECAUSE of the algorithm change. We're operating in a giant Skinner box. See internal results from Facebook in 2019 regarding Poland:
I would also commend the @WSJGraphics team for the visualizations in this @JeffHorwitz @keachhagey piece, which will be very useful in illustrating to my Tech Media & Democracy students how UX design & engineering decisions can have profound consequences. @informor @profcarroll

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Policymakers are coming up with new laws and regulations to address digital threats to democracy. But how do they define the democratic values they are trying to protect? For this week's @techpolicypress podcast I talk to @kreissdaniel and @KateDommett:
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Tomorrow is Labor Day. For this week's @techpolicypress podcast, I spoke with Diana Enríquez (@denrsch), a PhD Candidate in sociology at Princeton, on her recent research on automation and the gig economy- and what it's like to work for an algorithm:
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