Widespread use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media has fueled the fire of extreme polarization, Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, and Grant Sims write. In turn, they find this can lead to the erosion of democratic values and partisan violence.| Brookings
Reaching out across the partisan aisle can be easier than you'd think, write Peter T. Coleman and Pearce Godwin.| TIME
The subreddit r/collapse has become the doomscrolling capital of the Internet. Can its users break free?| TIME
Our new set of experimental classifiers aims to detect attributes correlated with more constructive conversation.| Medium