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Social media is driving political polarization

2 September 2019

In an opinion piece, Dr Robert Smith (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) discusses how social media polarises people’s political opinions, and argues that ‘echo chambers’ are an inevitable consequence of social networks which utilise algorithms to curate our online news.