November 8, 2016
USA Today: Obama is right- Social media deepens political division
SAN FRANCISCO — The most acrimonious election in memory mercifully ends tonight. Nasty late-night tweets. Fake news stories circulated on Facebook. Contentious comments from each side cluttering social media.
It's enough vitriol to depress a nation and prompt its leader, President Obama, to say he didn't realize social media would deepen political divisions and muddy facts the way it has this year. He took aim squarely at social media for exacerbating the country's problems in candid comments at a rally in Philadelphia Monday night...
"There's been a growing divide for some time — social media has amplified it," says Donna Rice Hughes, CEO of Enough is Enough, a nonprofit dedicated to making the Internet safer for children and families...