A Quinnipiac University poll asked U.S. registered voters to select one of four options to blame for the divisions in the country. Overall, 35 percent blamed social media, 32 percent blamed political leaders, 28 percent blamed cable news channels and only 1 percent blamed other countries.
Social media exposed the divisions, it didn’t cause them.
Well I remember when being antivax was a meme around 2008.
And social media existed then! In fact, the antivax stuff pretty much lines up directly with the creation of social media.
It does more than that, it magnifies, feeds and perpetuates them. It’s not just simple exposition.
Good perspective.
Dang, came in here to say pretty much the same thing. This has always been there, social media just created an echo chamber.