@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-10-30 02:56 UTC
So what is it that's causing the public to have horribly wrong views of trans rights as a policy priority for Democrats? It's right-wing media, not some annoying ads repeating far too many times on TV.
While TV ads at the presidential level have no real effect, being surrounded by far-right media does.
A study published in Nature found that people using Xitter's "For You" feed were more likely to develop policy views more similar to the Republican Party: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 02:57
Shockingly, when experiment participants were switched back to the old chronological feed, their increased right-wing views did not disappear(!). ----- What all of this suggests that Democrats' problem on trans issues has not been due to standing up for trans rights, it's a problem of Democrats not being able to communicate well or have anyone hear it. And indeed, there is evidence for this.