'Strap on a glock': Kari Lake urges supporters to be ready for 2024
MSNBCAPR 2024
Social media has played a key part in the rise of polarization, with algorithms and fake news seeking to exploit audiences who continue to spend an increasing amount of time online. Unless there is an immediate and widespread effort to teach key skills to help identify and combat this digital epidemic, social cohesion will continue to crumble in the face of division and hatred.
Social media is one of a multitude of independent factors that can be attributed to today's tide of polarization. Ranging from considerations such as a country's political freedom to the unique psychological state of any given individual, whilst social media cannot be denied as an important part of the puzzle solving the problem of an increasingly divided world involves more than placing sole blame on online platforms.
There is a 73% chance that Meta will claim there to have been AI-driven 'coordinated inauthentic behavior' aimed at influencing the 2024 US Presidential Election, according to the Metaculus prediction community.