Hacker News with Generative AI: Polarization

The Internet of Beefs (2020) (ribbonfarm.com)
Online public spaces are now being slowly taken over by beef-only thinkers, as the global culture wars evolve into a stable, endemic, background societal condition of continuous conflict.
Online Culture, Social Media, Conflict, Polarization
48 points by throw0101b 46 days ago | 9 comments
"Switzerland is as deeply polarized as the USA" (news.uzh.ch)
In many democracies, those on the left and right of the political divide are drifting further apart. Political discourse is increasingly spiteful and hostile. Silja Häusermann and Simon Bornschier from the Department of Political Science at UZH explain why this is the case and whether it poses a threat to democracy.
Politics, Polarization, Democracy, Social Science
15 points by sharpshadow 207 days ago | 16 comments