Matt Karolian
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Building new things at Boston Globe Media. 80th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard. Teach digital journalism at HarvardEXT. Non-Journalist.
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And I'm especially interested in the second trend explained here, which creates a distorted portrait of the world and impacts reality as a result
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Posting is correlated with affective polarization:
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
And I'm especially interested in the second trend explained here, which creates a distorted portrait of the world and impacts reality as a result
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It’s a shame they refuse to apply for FDA approval
October 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It’s a shame they refuse to apply for FDA approval