Josh Tucker on the Complex Truth About Social Media Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

How much blame should we put on social media for polarizing our society? Perhaps not as much as we tend to do. Joshua A Tucker joins Vasant Dhar in episode 82 of Brave New World to discuss his studies on the effects of social media -- and the algorithms that run them. 
 
Useful resources:
1. Joshua Tucker at NYU, Twitter and Google Scholar.
2. Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity -- Kevin Aslett, Zeve Sanderson, William Godel, Nathaniel Persily, Jonathan Nagler & Joshua A Tucker.
3. Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook -- Andrew Guess, Jonathan Nagler and Joshua A Tucker.
4. Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing -- Chris Bail.
5. Chris Bail on How to Fight Polarization -- Episode 34 of Brave New World.
6. The Social Media Industrial Complex -- Episode 3 of Brave New World (w Sinan Aral).
7. How Social Media Threatens Society -- Episode 8 of Brave New World (w Jonathan Haidt).
8. Quantifying the Impact of Misinformation and Vaccine-Skeptical Content on Facebook -- Jennifer Nancy Lee Allen, Duncan J Watts, and David Rand.

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