Opinion

Don’t Be So Certain That Social Media Is Undermining Democracy

TECHLASH

Correlation is not causation, and many popular media narratives about social media harms are overstated.

Nirit Weiss-Blatt
Nirit Weiss-Blatt
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Nirit Weiss-Blatt

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