Posting About Politics Makes It Harder to Change Our Minds

Dec 27 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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Are you on the right side of history? Do you know what time it is? Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?

If you use social media and post about politics, some version of these questions has probably crossed your mind, because one of the curious effects of the internet as we know it is the public record it creates for the political history of ordinary people.

The internet is forever—or, at least, forever enough that the safest...

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