Social Media News Verified Users On Social Media Networks Drive Polarization And The Formation Of Echo Chambers, Study Finds

Politically aggressive social media users are creating most of the anti-immigrant content

Most of us, whether we admit it or not, engage in a great deal of passive scrolling through social media daily. And while the platforms have proliferated for years, experts are only now beginning to ... Read More

Americans turn to social media and video for news more than any other source

Social media and video networks have ... discomfort when the news is mostly produced by humans, with AI playing a supporting role. Some parts of the world, particularly in Asia, are more comfortable ... Read More

Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

It's no secret that much of social media has become profoundly dysfunctional. Rather than bringing us together into one utopian public square and fostering a healthy exchange of ideas, these platforms ... Read More

AI Bots Were Made to Use a Stripped Down Social Network With No Curation Algorithms and They Still Formed Toxic Echo Chambers

Social media platforms have long been blamed for fueling polarization, disinformation, and toxic debates. The usual suspects are their algorithms, which are designed to keep people hooked by pushing ... Read More

Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened

It’s no secret that social media has devolved into a toxic cesspool of disinformation and hate speech. Without any meaningful pressure to come up with effective guardrails and enforceable policies, ... Read More

If You Get Your News on Social Media, It's Probably a Political Echo Chamber

As an X alternative, Bluesky is popular among left-leaning 'news influencers,' Pew Research finds. But they're not abandoning Elon Musk's social network just yet. Based in London, Will is passionate ... Read More

How a social network is bringing people together in increasingly divisive times

Large social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok have billions of users across the globe. The decisions they make about privacy, content moderation and misinformation can impact ... Read More

Social Media Surpasses TV, Online Articles as Americans’ Top News Source for the First Time, Reuters Study Says

Social media has overtaken TV and websites/apps as a primary news source for the first time, according to a new poll from Reuters and the University of Oxford. Per its findings, 54% of respondents ... Read More