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Rather than avoid political discussions altogether, Taylor Carlson, associate professor of political science in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, says we should take a step back to critically evaluate the information our peers share with us, similar to how we should evaluate information we read in the news. This would go a long way toward mitigating some of the negative consequences of political discussion and allow the benefits to shine through.

A series of studies suggest it's not algorithms that are driving political polarization, ignorance, or toxicity online.

William & Mary's data science program continues to grow as more interests converge in that direction.

It started with students approaching faculty members to create self-designed majors around the use of data.

Candace podcast in March in Nashville, Tenn. In 2021, Ben Shapiro rules Facebook. The conservative podcast host and author's personal Facebook page has more followers than The Washington Post, and he drives an engagement machine unparalleled by anything else on the world's biggest social networking site. An NPR analysis of social media data found that over the past year, stories published by the site Shapiro founded, The Daily Wire , received more likes, shares and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher by a wide margin. Even legacy news organizations that have broken major stor...