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Spencer Cox: “It's well documented [that social media cherry-picks the…”

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Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink | The Ezra Klein Show

Published | Video Starts at 43:11

It's that they're cherry picking the worst of the other side so that you can get outraged and justify your feelings about that. And that is happening. It's well documented [that social media cherry-picks the worst of the other side]. But there's something else that I think is important and we have to go back to the early 2000s, when Professor Putnam at Harvard produces a book, writes a book called Bowling Alone. (43:11–43:19)

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Asserts that social media platforms highlight negative aspects of opposing views.

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