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Tue, 06/01/2021 LAWRENCE — In the early days of COVID-19 vaccine development, a new social media platform provided a place for like-minded people to discuss vaccines, share misinformation and speculate about the motivations for its development. A new study from the University of Kansas shows people flocked to Parler to discuss the vaccines in an echo chamber-type environment, and those conversations can shed light about how to communicate about vaccine efficacy during health crises. In the ru...

Politicians but in order for that self correcting mechanism to work there needs to be true information and real understanding of what is happening and i think the concern i have is that so many voters have ips lated themselves for information and operating in echo chambers or so it cant work because voters dont understand what is happening if they dont listen to real news and instead rely on misinformation. >> or just outright propaganda. and kyung was explaining, it is so intoxicating i dont kn...

Ignorance in the age of information Chronological feeds and subscription models will help curb the creation of echo chambers   -  scyther5× The internet era has spawned ‘ideological prisons’. To break free we need curated sect of information providers While unveiling the iPhone in 2007 one of the first things Steve Jobs said was “it fits beautifully in the palm of your hands”, highlighting its intended purpose: convenience. One doesn’t need to be retrospective in order to acknowl...

Facebook Handing Over Power to the People Facebook Handing Over Power to the People The app introduces new tools for users to control what they see and how they share The app introduces new tools for users to control what they see and how they share April 1, 2021 On March 31st, Facebook introduced News Feed, a new tool to give users more control over what they see and how they share. This feature will enable you to control who can comment on any given public post through a menu of options rangi...

Credits: Image: Istockphoto images edited by MIT News Previous image Next image It is no secret that U.S. politics is polarized. An experiment conducted by MIT researchers now shows just how deeply political partisanship directly influences people’s behavior within online social networks. Deploying Twitter bots to help examine the online behavior of real people, the researchers found that the likelihood that individuals will follow other accounts on Twitter t...

4 Tips to Guide Your Investments in 2021 © (Getty Images) Retired man in his 50s relaxing at home, surfing the internet, trendy apartment interior U.S. stocks reached all-time highs in 2020, reflecting the divergence between fortunes on Wall Street and Main Street. The difference between Wall Street and Main Street is one of several important lessons from 2020. Investors who apply the lessons learned last year to their 2021 strategy may improve investment outcomes and reduce investment-relat...

Why America must remember 6 January as its Day of Infamy Behavioural insights could be harnessed to pre-empt mob violence (Photo: AFP) Cass R. Sunstein Share Via Read Full Story January the 6th, 2021, is a day that should live in infamy—a day on which the fundamental institutions of the US were suddenly attacked. It will take a long time to understand fully why political passion crossed the line into an insurrection at the US Capitol, but social science research illuminates part of the pictu...

Liar. its painful. that is so not how my experience was. these articles summed it up. what we see happening with distrust of government and media as well, by the way, what you see in authoritarian countries. russia, china, iran, zimbabwe. dictators who often feed lies to their people. they dont trust the government or the media. social media exacerbated that as well. i dont think this is the silver bullet that will fix it. but social media needs to be regulated the way banks on regulated. >> is ...

Ideological echo chambers and the geographic clustering of the electorate. there are so many of these dynamics obviously, brian, that we can examine the political change through. trump clearly exploited some of that uneasiness, some of that tension that was simmering within the party and within the culture itself. >> another story in this book weve got to share with our viewers is about mark meadows, republican, north carolina, he of the freedom caucus. here it is. when word leaked to gop leader...

And my book folk counsels this period of history from 2008 to 2018 for a number of reasons. its a very sort of neat ten-year window that we can look at the trump rise and the change within the republican party and -- but much of this i think does probably go back to the post 9/11 environment, because that was really the last time in which you saw the country unified. not just politically, but culturally as well. there was a real sense of societal cohesion. and i think what boehner and i were dis...