OPINION | We keep seeing headlines with absolute certainties, as if the threat to democracy posed by social media is an undeniable fact. It’s not.
, where our social networks—in the original use of the term—are rarely heterogeneous,” Lewis-Kraus wrote, adding that Haidt later told him that he no longer thinks echo chambers are “as widespread a problem as he’d once imagined.”If we’re exposed to more views, it raises a different issue. According to Professor Michael Bang Petersen, a political scientist at Aarhus University, that’s where a lot of theexposing us to a lot of things we wouldn’t normally encounter in our everyday lives.
Bail has pointed out that the number of people exposed to fake news is pretty low—only 2 percent of Twitter users routinely see fake news. More importantly, they don’t believe what they read when they do see it. This is especially troubling on the fringes, where already radicalized individuals find extremist content that reinforces their predispositions. Theof the population. It's not your average person, but it could be dangerous.
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