Why Online Spaces Feel More Hostile Than Ever

Civil discourse becomes impossible when people deny each other’s humanity. In this episode with Alice E. Marwick, we examine how platform incentives amplify conflict, empower bad actors, and deepen societal divides.

Watch the full discussion here: https://youtu.be/6n1fQqdu5Gw

#Mastodon #DigitalEthics #SocialMedia #Polarization #TechCritique #OnlineCulture

#biden #polarization #inequality #israel

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/03/22/the-contradictions-at-the-heart-of-the-american-revolution-part-xliii-the-joseph-r-biden-administration-pandemic-recovery-democratic-strain-and-governing-in-the-long-shadow-of-crisis/

#Trump #polarization #weaponization #race

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/03/22/the-contradictions-at-the-heart-of-the-american-revolution-part-xlii-the-donald-j-trump-administration-populist-upheaval-institutional-stress-testing-and-the-exposure-of-ameri/

#obama #crisis #polarization

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/03/22/the-contradictions-at-the-heart-of-the-american-revolution-part-xli-the-barack-obama-administration-the-politics-of-hope-the-aftershocks-of-crisis-and-the-limits-of-post-racial/

Check out my new post for #ResistAndHeal:

Free Speech and Due Process in the Pentagon

https://open.substack.com/pub/resistandheal/p/free-speech-and-due-process-in-the?r=4unjx&utm_medium=ios

#politics #ConCW #polarization #military #culturewar

Book Review: What Left and Right Really Mean

Dr. Douglas Giles gives us a simplistic, but fairly appropriate definition:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=223

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#polarization

X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties - People vs. Big Tech
https://peoplevsbig.tech/x-and-tiktok-algorithms-favour-the-far-right-at-the-expense-of-moderate-parties/

#BigTech #SocialMedia #FarRight #Polarization #Democracy #LeaveX #LeaveTikTok

The more active users are on social media, the more polarized they are.

Political attitudes differ but share a common low-dimensional structure
across social media and survey data: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.02102

Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X24001313

#BigTech #SocialMedia #HateSpeech #Polarization #Politics