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To what extent do social media algorithms, and YouTube's specifically, contribute to user's views becoming more extreme and even radicalizing? That's a complicated question, but researchers tried to tackle it and have come up with some interesting results. First let's define some terms (as the researchers did). An echochamber is a social media information ecosystem

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Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.

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How to Tackle Truth Decay
5 Mar 2024
theatlantic.com

The social contract of trust between experts and society is in danger of dissolving. We need to start putting it back together.

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The concept of propaganda has a great deal of power to fascinate. So does the very word propaganda, which to most of us today sounds faintly exotic, as if it referred mainly to phenomena from distant places and times.

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The Story Behind Banksy
20 Nov 2022
smithsonianmag.com

On his way to becoming an international icon, the subversive and secretive street artist turned the art world upside-down

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Conducting a Twitter network analysis uncovers a widespread bot network targeting West Papua with pro-Indonesian Government content on major social platforms.