Title: Hard Questions: What Effect Does Social Media Have on Democracy? - About Facebook
Headings: Hard Questions: What Effect Does Social Media Have on Democracy?
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Hard Questions: What Effect Does Social Media Have on Democracy?
Foreign Interference
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Echo Chambers
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Content: By helping people sharpen their social media literacy, we can help society be more resilient to misleading stories. Even with all these countermeasures, the battle will never end. Misinformation campaigns are not amateur operations. They are professionalized and constantly try to game the system. We will always have more work to do. Echo Chambers
One of the most common criticisms of social media is that it creates echo chambers where people only see viewpoints they agree with — further driving us apart. That’s a legitimate issue but it’s more complex than how it is sometimes portrayed. Compared with the media landscape of the past, social media exposes us to a more diverse range of views. A recent Reuters Institute Digital News Report found that 44% of people in the US who use social media for news end up seeing sources from both the left and the right — more than twice the rate of people who don’t use social media. The deeper question is how people respond when they encounter these differing opinions — do they listen to them, ignore them, or even block them?