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Taming the digital information tide to promote equality

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Interactive technologies are changing the ways we learn facts, develop attitudes and participate in politics, with the ensuing risk of increasing pre-existing inequalities. Addressing this challenge is the duty of researchers, technology companies, governments and news organizations.

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  1. School of Communications, Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Sebastián Valenzuela

  2. School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

    Hernando Rojas

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Valenzuela, S., Rojas, H. Taming the digital information tide to promote equality. Nat Hum Behav 3, 1134–1136 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0700-9

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