Our new preprint explains why social media creates a funhouse mirror--a distorted perception of social norms.

Because extreme voices dominate discourse on most topics, users develop a false sense of shared norms
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Led by Claire Robertson Kareena del Rosario

Jay Van Bavel, PhD Claire Robertson Kareena del Rosario This is a really great, clear finding. And I’ll add that we show analogous results, in a different way, among US politicians: politicians who share more ideologically extreme content are those who—by far—share the most information on social media (note the log scale).