Earlier in October, The Washington Post refused to endorse a candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election. The public was outraged that the paper, whose motto is “Democracy dies in darkness,” would not ...

When X (formerly Twitter) changed its verification system in 2022, many foresaw its potential to impact the spread of political opinions on the platform. In a modeling study published October 22 in ...

It’s election season, and I have people in my network asking me for my thoughts on how social media is affecting the daily sentiment around the political climate. In recent years, the landscape of ...

In the digital age, we find ourselves increasingly divided, not just by our beliefs and values, but by the very technologies designed to connect us. The sophisticated algorithms that power our social ...

Once upon a time, newly minted graduates dreamt of creating online social media that would bring people closer together. That dream is now all but a distant memory. In 2024, there aren't many ills ...

Peace-builder and Ashoka Fellow Helena Puig Larrauri co-founded Build Up to transform conflict in the digital age–in places from the U.S. to Iraq. With the exponential growth of viral polarizing ...

Media might deepen partisan divides, but we should measure reading habits more carefully before drawing conclusions—and avoid assuming that our own thought processes are the only rational ones. Does ...

Research suggests that the political toxicity many users encounter on social media is a design choice that can be reversed A new Stanford-led study is challenging the idea that political toxicity is ...

Political polarization refers to the increasing divergence of political attitudes into ideological extremes and the accompanying affective hostility between opposed groups. It unfolds along two ...

Roughly three-quarters of Americans in a new poll say the news media is widening the political divide. Seventy-four percent of U.S. adults believe the media is increasing political divisions, 6 ...