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young voters say social media to blame for divisions in the u.s (thehill.com)

submitted 11 months ago by rob299@bookwormstory.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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A Quinnipiac University poll asked U.S. registered voters to select one of four options to blame for the divisions in the country. Overall, 35 percent blamed social media, 32 percent blamed political leaders, 28 percent blamed cable news channels and only 1 percent blamed other countries.

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[–] HairHeel@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Social media is not to blame. The people using it are.

[–] rob299@bookwormstory.social 5 points 11 months ago

The people using it also make up social media. without the people social media is worthless, and powerless. and the more powerless in particular that it is the less divisions it would be able to cause, if that real is the legit cause of dividing people. It might or might not be the main cause but sure we could agree that it enables the spread of divising tactics.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Why does it sound so much like the gun debate?

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

This is the guns don't kill people argument.