The left-wing Carnegie Foundation will spend $18 million over the next three years to understand how and why our society is so polarized and how we can “strengthen the forces of cohesion to fortify our democracy.”
I’m sure any Republican could tell them for less than $18 million.
Under the direction of Dame Louise Richardson, the Corporation will commit up to $6 million annually to the program for at least the next three years.
In a letter in my box this morning, they wrote:
The winning proposals include a wide range of research projects that include using the largest dataset ever obtained from Meta to understand social media’s impact on polarization; developing civic education to decrease partisan prejudice among high school students; identifying conspiracy theories that lead to radicalization; and learning about democracy from the Asian American perspective.
“The foundation’s support of these fascinating projects is a considered effort to mine scholarship for insights into the underlying causes of the political polarization that is damaging our democracy,” said Richardson. “We also hope to gain insights into the means by which collectively we can mitigate the negative effects of this polarization on our society.”
I’d venture a guess here that they are looking for more ways to silence those with whom they disagree.
The Carnegie Foundation gives to very left-wing causes.
Dame Richardson is Irish, a Harvard grad, and an alleged expert on terrorism. She’s big on gender equality.
This has totalitarianism written all over it. The halls of academia are filled with these studies of social media, the one place the average person can have a say.
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Main Stream Media – controlled by the democrats – is the main reason there is such polarization. The MSM distort, exaggerate and tell lies to brainwash, to manipulate, to gas light and to encourage their audience to hate with a passion anyone who leans right politically. just an example out of thousands even though there is like a dozen or… Read more »
Where does mainstream media get their news stories from?, Social Media. It is AstroTurf, as Sharyl Attkisson has stated in a brilliant video presentation. There is hardly any real authentic investigative journalist reporting the news anymore. As specially the liberal mainstream media. It is algorithmically controlled pysop news stories. That’s why they have an desperately want to continue using censorship… Read more »
After they spend 18M, it will be Russia, China, and Trump supporters that caused the polarization!
It is AI, Bots, and algorithms. Basically that’s all social media is. Then you can throw in that social media is the number cause of digital dementia. Which is now considered to be effecting people in epidemic proportions. It makes people cognitively impaired, with extremely short attention spans, to almost being non existent.
Millions of dollars to write some pseudo intellectual mumbo bs that will support their atheistic socialists world view.
Yup, they must stick with the narrative to continue receiving funding for the next bs.