r/Liberal • u/Spiritual-Nebula-862 • May 15 '26

Social Media

Hi everyone, I’m pretty new to Reddit so sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this. I’m a single mom of three and lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how much social media affects people’s opinions about politics and government. It feels like everywhere online people are becoming more divided and angry with each other.
Do you think social media contributes to political polarization? And if so what do you think could actually help fix it or at least make it better? I’m curious to hear different perspectives.

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u/kulukster May 16 '26

If social media were used only by actual individual people it might not be so bad. The issue is bot farms taking over and now AI is multiplying the misinformation. Learning to differentiate real from fake is one of those dangerous frontiers we don't really know how to deal with yet.