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New study highlights the virality of hate

And why "dunking" on our political opponents only fuels the problem.

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Parker Molloy
Jun 29, 2021
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A new research article published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) doesn’t bode well for efforts to fight political extremism and polarization. The paper’s authors analyzed 2,730,215 Twitter and Facebook posts published by members of the news media and U.S. Congre…

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