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Did better broadband make Americans more partisan?
Curated:
29/08/2016 from
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/27/donald-trump-fox-news-charlie-sykes-modern-debate
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a research paper ... found depressing proof that the web is fuelling segregation.... matched the attitudes of those who did and did not have broadband with data on partisan hostility...
Greater use of the web ensured that an admirer of Jon Stewart would think that conservatives were not just mistaken but stupid, or a viewer of Fox News would work on the assumption that liberals were wicked. Both sides could dismiss uncomfortable facts as lies. Both sides allowed their politics to become so bound up with their identity, opposing arguments felt almost as if they were physical assaults... The better the access to the web many enjoyed, the more they clung to their own kind... watching four minutes of Fox News a week was enough to increase the odds of an American voting for a conservative candidate.
Greater use of the web ensured that an admirer of Jon Stewart would think that conservatives were not just mistaken but stupid, or a viewer of Fox News would work on the assumption that liberals were wicked. Both sides could dismiss uncomfortable facts as lies. Both sides allowed their politics to become so bound up with their identity, opposing arguments felt almost as if they were physical assaults... The better the access to the web many enjoyed, the more they clung to their own kind... watching four minutes of Fox News a week was enough to increase the odds of an American voting for a conservative candidate.
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