{"id":573369,"date":"2026-03-30T03:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573369\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:28:13","slug":"social-media-is-populist-and-polarising-ai-may-be-the-opposite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573369\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Arab Spring uprisings to the ongoing electoral gains of the radical right and left to the rise of anti-science sentiment, the past 15 years have been characterised by waves of populism, polarisation and an erosion of trust in experts, expertise and the establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Many factors contribute to these trends, but, as I have previously argued, a key one is the dramatic change in our information environment brought about by the rise of social media.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the Arab Spring uprisings to the ongoing electoral gains of the radical right and left to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-573369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}