Social Media Profiles: the real, the fake and the extreme. In conversation with Professor Chris Bail of Duke University

The San Francisco Experience

EpisodeJul 20, 202129m

Social Media Profiles: the real, the fake and the extreme. In conversation with Professor Chris Bail of Duke University

The San Francisco Experience

EpisodeJul 20, 202129m

Chris Bail's new book " Breaking the Social Prism - How to make our platforms less Polarizing," analyzes how we got to this crisis point and steps to defuse the situation. The echo chambers, social prisms that distort users and their comments plus political tribalism is a poisonous trifecta that only social media users can change.

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We are a "deep dive" news podcast, for Americans who get their news from the Internet. Our mission is to give the listener succinct, fact based analysis both non-ideological and independent from a California, Silicon Valley perspective. Your host Jim Herlihy is a published author: his novel “Deceit and Dirty Money” is available on line. He served as President of the SF Public Library Commission 1992 - 1996. While working in Latin America, he was a stringer for The Economist, The Times and the BBC. Jim serves as a director on two SF sister city boards : Bangalore, India and Cork, Ireland.

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