In this episode we were joined by Steve Rathje, a postdoc at NYU, to discuss his research on how intergroup animosity drives virality on social media. Read Steve's work <a href='https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2024292118'>here</a>, Facebook's response <a href='https://research.facebook.com/blog/2021/07/extremism-is-bad-for-our-business-and-what-we-are-doing-about-it/'>here</a>, and Steve's response to the response <a href='https://twitter.com/steverathje2/status/1415384069244956676?s=20&t=H6w8WzVCA4WSLJomBluu3g'>here</a>.

In this episode we were joined by Steve Rathje, a postdoc at NYU, to discuss his research on how intergroup animosity drives virality on social media. Read Steve's work here, Facebook's response here, and Steve's response to the response here.

In this episode we were joined by Steve Rathje, a postdoc at NYU, to discuss his research on how intergroup animosity drives virality on social media. Read Steve's work <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2024292118" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>, Facebook's response <a href="https://research.facebook.com/blog/2021/07/extremism-is-bad-for-our-business-and-what-we-are-doing-about-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>, and Steve's response to the response <a href="https://twitter.com/steverathje2/status/1415384069244956676?s=20&amp;t=H6w8WzVCA4WSLJomBluu3g" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

The Rath of Steve (with Steve Rathje)

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