Smaldino (University of California Merced) explored how robust and realistic the widespread perception of polarization is.

These are challenging times with much at stake for future generations. Social anxiety is at its highest level in years. It affects all ages and seeps into our everyday cultural institutions. The ...

Some researchers predict that, as people get richer, polarization over social norms is destined to fade in the West.

For years, regulators and activists have worried that social media companies’ algorithms were dividing the United States with politically toxic posts and conspiracies. The concern was so ...

A recent survey indicates Americans are more divided than united on what patriotism means. However, there are ways to change ...

Social media and political polarization in America | 60 Minutes With midterm elections in just two days, America is in a very angry moment. Republicans attack Democrats, and Democrats return fire ...

It’s election season, and I have people in my network asking me for my thoughts on how social media is affecting the daily sentiment around the political climate. In recent years, the landscape ...

And as one leading social media and polarization researcher told me, the model is not empirical, which makes it hard to test. There's nothing to replicate, really.

Social Media Studies Keep Finding That Social Media Algorithms Don't Increase Polarization. Why Is the Press So Skeptical? New research on Facebook before the 2020 election finds scant evidence to ...

These are challenging times with much at stake. Social anxiety is at its highest level in years. The question is how to diminish polarization's barrage and psychological consequences.