{"id":3822,"date":"2024-02-12T21:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2024-02-29T01:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T01:48:48","slug":"associate-professor-ethan-zuckerman-writes-in-wired-on-the-rise-of-small-room-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/2024\/02\/12\/associate-professor-ethan-zuckerman-writes-in-wired-on-the-rise-of-small-room-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Professor Ethan Zuckerman Writes in WIRED on the Rise of Small Room Social Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3822\" class=\"elementor elementor-3822\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-37d9f86 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" 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in.\u201d Read more:\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: white;letter-spacing: 0px\" href=\"https:\/\/brnw.ch\/21wGPS9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/brnw.ch\/21wGPS9<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Ethan Zuckerman authored an editorial for WIRED titled \u201cSocial Media is Getting Smaller\u2014and More Treacherous,\u201d where he explores how the rise of \u201csmall room\u201d social networks foster communities and spaces for extremist groups to share their ideologies. \u201cSmall rooms have a big downside: they\u2019re as useful for Nazis as they are for knitters,\u201d 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