How politicians leverage polarizing language — and how we can fix it
Issue 60: Evaluating the polarizing tweets, ads, and campaign materials of congressional candidates for divisive language; take our online quiz and find out if your own language is divisive.
This fall, the New York Times ran a front page article analyzing polarizing language from materials written by congressional leaders in the past 10 years, including 3.7 million tweets, Facebook ads, newsletters, and congressional speeches.
The NYT used a new Online Polarization Dictionary that Jay created with Almog Simchon and Billy Brady (which Jay sha…
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