{"id":1563,"date":"2023-08-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2023-08-13T17:44:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:44:50","slug":"is-facebook-making-us-more-polarized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/14\/is-facebook-making-us-more-polarized\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Facebook Making Us More Polarized?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- x-tinymce\/html --><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On today\u2019s episode: Genes that pose risks in advanced age may show benefits when we\u2019re younger. We all want to know if social media is making our uncles more polarized in our echo chambers\u2026 well scientists are figuring it out! Probably. <strong id=\"docs-internal-guid-829b7870-7fff-fb03-aedc-03f582621266\"><\/strong>All that and more today on All Around Science&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"block-a24a19c2-2e7a-4870-8679-ccbb54e7f488\">LINKS:<\/h3>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:list --><\/p>\n<p>SOURCES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20230808-discoveries-alzheimers-gene-associated-increased-fertility-amazonian-women\">Alzheimer\u2019s gene associated with increased fertility in Amazonian women | ASU News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2023\/07\/did-facebook-fuel-political-polarization-during-the-2020-election-its-complicated\/\">Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It\u2019s complicated.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/socialmediaarchive.org\/search?cc=US2020&amp;ln=en&amp;c=US2020\">US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-239776ef-65cb-4fab-8ecd-24b3f26995d7\"><strong>THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KEYSwithSOUL\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/KEYSwithSOUL<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XyrMV6ORYC?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/andrewallenmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- wp:html -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/27739371\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/87A93A\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\" height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border: none;\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- \/wp:html -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s episode: Genes that pose risks in advanced age may show benefits when we\u2019re younger. We all want to know if social media is making our uncles more polarized in our echo chambers\u2026 well scientists are figuring it out! Probably. All that and more today on All Around Science&#8230; LINKS: SOURCES Alzheimer\u2019s gene associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,17,107,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaroundscience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}