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Nationally, political polarization is causing and will continue to cause gridlock in the U.S. to a point of a government shutdown, which has been threatened in the past. Internationally, polarization is affecting global affairs where a U.S. response cannot be internally agreed upon. (Photo Credit: Aaron Burden / Unsplash)

An Analysis of the Causes and Effects of Political Polarization in the United States

Sonali Campbell, Staff Reporter
January 26, 2024
Firefighters put out a street fire during the 2020 Bangalore Riots, caused by an alleged blasphemous Facebook post by the nephew of an Indian National Congress state legislator targeting the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Damages in the resulting chaos included looting, the burning of cars and police stations, three deaths, and the arrests of over 206 people.

All That Glitters is Not Gold: A Modernizing India With Centuries-Old Ethnic Conflicts and a Problem With Fake News

Pritika Patel, Staff Reporter
January 18, 2023
“Information that is useful and relevant to readers, tends to come from trusted messengers in the community. The more that you erode people’s ability to access those trusted messengers, the more that you stop incentivizing trusted journalists to do local reporting. You create vacuums for any citizen to do that reporting,” said Niko Perez, Program Manager for PEN America.

Social Media Can No Longer Be Journalism’s Foe

Helen Stone, Staff Reporter
January 18, 2023
Pictured is Eric Arthur Blair at forty years old, better known under his pseudonym, George Orwell.

Where 2+2 = 5: Orwell’s Oracular Opuses Are Not Outdated

Sela Emery, Staff Reporter
February 1, 2022
How much control does Facebook (Meta) have over our collective futures?

The Whistleblower: Facebook and Instagram Place Profits Above All Else

Samgar Aidarhanov, Staff Reporter
November 23, 2021
“With many Americans questioning the integrity of our elections, members from the Election Assistance Commission and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency’s Rumor Control group have worked until now to assuage those concerns.”

Cybersecurity, Voting, and Misinformation: What We Have Learned From the 2020 Elections

Arian Berisha, Staff Reporter
January 12, 2021
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