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Maybe the Internet Isn’t Tearing Us Apart After All

Maybe the Internet Isn’t Tearing Us Apart After All

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In the United States... the chances that two people visiting the same news site have different political views is about 45 percent... the internet is far closer to perfect desegregation than perfect segregation... you are more likely to come across someone with opposing views online than you are offline...
a surprising amount of the information people get on Facebook comes from people with opposing views... People have substantially more friends on Facebook ... weak ties facilitated by Facebook are more likely to be people with opposite political views.

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