Legacy Media and Political Polarization
Partisan divides among cable and mainstream news consumers are much greater than those among social media users.
People often finger social media as the primary culprit in America’s increasingly bitter and divided politics. As the argument goes, corporate tech algorithms and consumer choices are forcing people into closed-looped information circuits full of misinformation, political self-righteousness, and acrimony toward others.
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