Twitter: divisive content, not preference

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Why do social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter bring out the worst in people?

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A new study finds that divisive content is king on Twitter , but that's not because we prefer it.

Social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter are simply giving us what we want to see.

Gordon Heltzel is a social psychologist at the University of British Columbia who has spent years looking at political polarization.

He suggests that the people driving political conversations on Twitter are n’t representative of the broader public.

Pew survey found that just a quarter of Americans were using Twitter at all.

6% of Americans are who they called “prolific tweeters,” meaning that they make up the lion’s share of politics tweets.

Joe Biden won the 2020 Democratic presidential primary or Eric Adams won the Democratic mayoral primary when both candidates had a very small social media footprint compared to their opponents.

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English

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possibly offensive

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not hateful