<description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode we were joined by Steve Rathje, a postdoc at NYU, to discuss his research on how intergroup animosity drives virality on social media. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Read Steve&amp;apos;s work &lt;a href='https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2024292118'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, Facebook&amp;apos;s response &lt;a href='https://research.facebook.com/blog/2021/07/extremism-is-bad-for-our-business-and-what-we-are-doing-about-it/'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and Steve&amp;apos;s response to the response &lt;a href='https://twitter.com/steverathje2/status/1415384069244956676?s=20&amp;amp;t=H6w8WzVCA4WSLJomBluu3g'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

More of a Comment Than a Question

Paul Connor

The Rath of Steve (with Steve Rathje)

OCT 11, 202250 MIN
More of a Comment Than a Question

The Rath of Steve (with Steve Rathje)

OCT 11, 202250 MIN

Description

In this episode we were joined by Steve Rathje, a postdoc at NYU, to discuss his research on how intergroup animosity drives virality on social media.

Read Steve's work here, Facebook's response here, and Steve's response to the response here.