Tag: Social Media

The 2023 Reuters Institute Digital News Report covers changes and challenges in the media industry. Media bias and polarization cause trust to decline, avoidance to rise, and news source choices to change.

The social media platforms drive us toward our preferred topics and viewpoints not out of malice but rather for bottom-line business reasons. The longer you stay on their website, the more money they make.

Twitter’s decision to mark NPR as "state-affiliated" sparked a debate at AllSides over whether NPR truly deserved the label.

For those of us who would like to build bridges between warring factions, the challenge is about to become much greater.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is currently one of the most highly contested pieces of legislation on the books, largely due to its vast consequences on the way we are interact with the internet. Explore the various perspectives of those that want to revoke, reform, or leave alone, Section 230.

Clear majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents "sometimes or never trust Facebook to do the right thing."

A Twitter analysis found media outlets AllSides rates as being on the right are amplified slightly more — 4% — than outlets AllSides rates as on the left.

The government can update Section 230(c)(1) so that social media companies like Facebook no longer get special protection for content that they moderate, but can be held accountable.

Good-faith disagreements are a normal part of society and building strong relationships. Yet it’s difficult to engage in good-faith disagreements on the internet, and people reach less common ground online compared with face-to-face disagreements.