Hacker News with Generative AI: Political Polarization

Purity Spiral (wikipedia.org)
A purity spiral is a theory which argues for the existence of a form of groupthink in which it becomes more beneficial to hold certain views than to not hold them, and more extreme views are rewarded while expressing doubt, nuance, or moderation is punished (a process sometimes called "moral outbidding").
Nearly half of Americans think members of the opposing political party are evil (phys.org)
Nearly half of the U.S. electorate thinks members of the opposing party aren't just wrong for politics—they're "downright evil," according to new polling data from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X (globalwitness.org)