Political polarization is getting worse
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🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Always read the label. It's no secret that this country is deeply divided by politics. |
| 0:41.8 | But new research shows that partisanship is actually getting worse. Social |
| 0:46.1 | media, which is sold as that way to bring everybody together, is pushing us further and |
| 0:50.9 | further apart. Ronnie Mola wrote about it for RICO. |
| 0:53.8 | She's a senior data reporter here. |
| 0:55.4 | Hey Ronnie. |
| 0:56.1 | Hey, how you doing, Teddy? |
| 0:57.2 | So this idea that we're a polarized nation |
| 0:59.6 | has been around for, it feels like forever. |
| 1:09.0 | Part of it is this idea that we live in filter bubbles on social media and you wrote about this. Tell me like what is a filter bubble? |
| 1:10.0 | So I actually talked to the guy who coined the term filter bubble. His name is Eli Pariser and it |
| 1:15.9 | means that the algorithms that are on different social media platforms sort of restrict what you see and |
| 1:21.9 | they restrict what you see so that you see more of what you see, and they restrict what you see |
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