Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states.

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Maria Ressa argues that Facebook's algorithmic design prioritizes engagement over truth, leading to the erosion of democratic ...

Hong Kong pro-democracy political party League of Social Democrats announced on Sunday it had disbanded due to immense ...

Social media helps democracy because we as teens are more actively making connections and learning new information. So I agree that technology could help democracy by enabling people to engage.

A senior fellow at the safer tech nonprofit Project Liberty Institute, Tang builds tools to fight political polarization. In Bowling Green, Kentucky, almost everyone agrees that historic buildings ...

Social democracy is a political ideology of the centre-left on the classic political spectrum. Historically, social democracy was a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. The Frankfurt ...

So even if social media really did begin to undermine democracy (and institutional trust and teen mental health) in the early 2010s, we should not expect social science to “settle” the matter ...

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As social media use becomes more widespread globally, people in 27 countries surveyed by Pew Research Center between 2022 and 2023 generally see it as more of a good thing than a bad thing for ...

B eing a fully-fledged Norwegian patriot who celebrates our national day religiously, the deterioration of the social democracy is painful to behold. Since Norway became wealthy on oil in the ...