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young voters say social media to blame for divisions in the u.s (thehill.com)

submitted 10 months ago by rob299@bookwormstory.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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A Quinnipiac University poll asked U.S. registered voters to select one of four options to blame for the divisions in the country. Overall, 35 percent blamed social media, 32 percent blamed political leaders, 28 percent blamed cable news channels and only 1 percent blamed other countries.

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[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

I agree with you, but there is a greater subtext here that social media has made it easier than ever to make money by driving a wedge harder than ever into that split. Same split, but this makes the old tactics look pretty quaint. IMHO.

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