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pThe loneliness and sterility of children’s “educational” videos in the Trump era. /p

The ‘Fun Cup’ Factor We Test-race a $35K Belgian Bug.

Tomorrow, I’m heading to Stanford to deliver a speech about changes in the way we create and consume information, and the very real threat…

Partisan media impacts voting behavior, yet what changes in viewers’ beliefs or attitudes may underlie these impacts is poorly understood. We recruited a sample of regular Fox News viewers using data on actual TV viewership from a media company, and incentivized them to watch CNN instead for a month using real-time viewership quizzes. Despite regular Fox viewers being largely strong partisans, we found manifold effects of changing the slant of their media diets on their factual beliefs, attitudes, perceptions of issues’ importance, and overall political views. We show that these effects stem in part from a bias we call partisan coverage filtering, wherein partisan outlets selectively report information, leading viewers to learn a biased set of facts. Consistent with this, treated participants concluded that Fox concealed negative information about President Trump. Partisan media does not only present its side an electoral advantage—it may present a challenge for democratic accountability.

It's never been easier for mistruths to go viral, and content moderation is inadequate. What social media needs is some old-fashioned friction.

The former president knows we need a system-wide approach. But where to start?

Reasons why you should care about how your social network is run and structured

Mastodon is now available on Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. Read about some of the design decisions we made for these apps!

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