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  1. 3 days agoThe government acknowledges the dual nature of social media, recognizing its potential for positive impact while also acknowledging the inherent risks it poses. Existing legislation aimed at protecting individuals from online harms has been put in place, but the recent spate of incidents has exposed significant shortcomings in these measures.
  2. news.yale.edu

    Mar 31, 2023"The magnitude of the effect we found is modest but two characteristics of social media and civil unrest caution against dismissing it," said Karell, assistant professor of sociology in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the study's lead author."First, hard-right social media platforms are easy to join, increasingly popular, and attracting more than a billion dollars in ...
  3. brookings.edu

    Widespread use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media has fueled the fire of extreme polarization, Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims write. In turn, they find this can ...
  4. homelandsecuritynewswire.com

    Apr 11, 2023An increase in social media activity on "hard-right" platforms — those that purport to represent viewpoints not welcome on "mainstream" platforms — contributes to rightwing civil unrest in the United States, according to a new study led by Yalesociologist Daniel Karell.. In an analysis of data from hard-right social media activity and incidents of civil unrest that occurred ...
  5. journals.sagepub.com

    Mar 16, 2023The magnitude of the relationship between HRSM activity and subsequent hard-right unrest is not large. A 10 percent rise in activity on Parler yields a .04 percent increase in events per 100,000 people. Despite the modest effect size, two characteristics of social media and civil unrest caution against dismissing its importance.
  6. Aug 30, 2023Critical accounts of the ills wrought by social media have become commonplace, but the details are still important. YouTube, launched in 2005 and acquired by Google (now Alphabet) in 2006, is one of the most popular social media platforms in the United States ().YouTube's recommendation algorithms, which drive massive amounts of content consumption on the site, have a notorious reputation ...
  7. sociology.yale.edu

    Apr 6, 2023Tech Explorist cites a study led by Yale sociologist Daniel Karell, that increased social media activity on "hard-right" platforms, which purport to represent viewpoints not welcome on "mainstream" platforms, contributes to rightwing civil unrest in the United States. A study connects hard-right social media to incidents of civil unrest (techexplorist.com)
  8. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Sep 3, 2023Critical accounts of the ills wrought by social media have become commonplace, but the details are still important. YouTube, launched in 2005 and acquired by Google (now Alphabet) in 2006, is one of the most popular social media platforms in the United States . YouTube's recommendation algorithms, which drive massive amounts of content ...
  9. bhr.stern.nyu.edu

    Some critics of the social media industry contend that widespread use of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube has contributed to increased political polarization in the United States. But Facebook, the largest social media platform, has disputed this contention, saying that it is unsupported by social science research. ...
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