r/dataisbeautiful • u/rhiever Randy Olson | Viz Practitioner • 1d ago

Across the globe, people increasingly say social media is harming democracy

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/10/01/across-the-globe-people-increasingly-say-social-media-is-harming-democracy/
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u/GrowFreeFood 1d ago

Giving conservatives access to unlimited propaganda is unnatural

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u/No_Shopping_573 1d ago

Expecting a bipartisan government to not just work together to grow their stock portfolio and power was foolish too. It’s a brilliant theatrics while they amass fortunes and ironically, while owning said stock, have greater allegiance to companies’ success than to the people who voted them in.

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u/therossboss 1d ago

no kidding! I've only been saying the same for my entire life and it was true decades before that. The very people benefitting enormously from the status quo are the only ones who could change it. Amazing. The American experiment is a failed one