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Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated.
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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Those seem like "how" or "why" questions to me. More complicated. The big one is "how do we prevent" and I bet we won't get an honest answer from big social themselves. That's why there should be independent public research.