Social media content development needs to firmly establish safeguards from the dangers of misinformation. Like the latest parental controls on Instagram, levers are necessary to regulate the content.

Puig Larrauri: There's actually two reasons why polarization thrives on social media. One is that it invites people to manipulate others and to deploy harassment on mass.

They say that social media companies should be aware of the possible impact they have on political polarization and attempt to mitigate this within their algorithms.

How Social Media Fuels Polarization - 11/18/2024. The sophisticated algorithms that power our social media feeds have created information bubbles that fundamentally change how we process information.

The 2020 documentary, The Social Dilemma, unveils the ugly capacities of the very social media platforms many of us spend hours on each day.Economic interests have commodified our social media use, ...

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 ...

Social media and political polarization in America | 60 Minutes 13:39. With midterm elections in just two days, America is in a very angry moment. Republicans attack Democrats, ...

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 ...

Nearly 200 residents representing the voting breakdown of a swing state found common ground on hot-button issues.

Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 ...

In my recent book, Rethinking How We Think: Integrative Meta-perspective and the Cognitive “Growing Up” on Which Our Future Depends, I went into detail about the dangers of device addiction ...