There’s been a drum beat, suggesting that social media and information silos, echo chambers, are a driving force behind our divisiveness and polarization.

New research suggests this may be overstated.

It may have more to do with the very nature of how we come to know or believe things in the political realm.

In this episode, I sit down with researcher Ritsaart Reimann who looked at decades of research to propose some hypotheses for what’s going on as well as some ideas for improving the situation.

The insights will change how you think about politics and social media, political identities, and disinformation.

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