“Mutual learning happens in the entropy; we need the confusion to release the new.” Nora Bateson In a previous blog, "The Purpose of Conflict" I wrote, "What we can learn is to embrace conflict. To do ...

When X (formerly Twitter) changed its verification system in 2022, many foresaw its potential to impact the spread of political opinions on the platform. In a modeling study published October 22 in ...

Peace-builder and Ashoka Fellow Helena Puig Larrauri co-founded Build Up to transform conflict in the digital age–in places from the U.S. to Iraq. With the exponential growth of viral polarizing ...

Political polarization in the U.S. has reached an alarming level. We have reached the point of fearing an honest conversation. Most Americans — 61 percent of adults, according to a Pew poll from ...

A safer, saner social media world is possible, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen told members of Congress in 2021. Instead, she said, leaders at the social media company chose engagement ...

In the digital age, we find ourselves increasingly divided, not just by our beliefs and values, but by the very technologies designed to connect us. The sophisticated algorithms that power our social ...

"People are constantly trying to ascribe intent," Tim Davie tells a parliamentary committee. They will interpret coverage "very differently based on where you come from or your echo chamber." By Georg ...

The first and perhaps the most serious such consequence is the decline of public trust in the military. When people perceive the military as representing one particular ideological view, especially ...

Social platforms like Facebook and X exacerbate the problem of political and social polarization, but they don’t create it. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Amsterdam in ...

Top: Gray circles show the survey-based polarization measure over time; the red crosses represent the model prediction. Bottom: Estimated average number of close friends by country and survey. The ...

"Aikido: The Way Of Harmony" Source: Caroline Silvestri (C) with permission “Mutual learning happens in the entropy; we need the confusion to release the new.” —Nora Bateson In a previous post, "The ...