[Opinion] Opportunities and Risks: Expert Conference "Mepodi: Opinion Building in the Digital Space"

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Digital media increasingly determine which information we perceive and how opinions form – whether via social networks, news platforms or in direct exchange. At yesterday's symposium "mepodi – Medienbildung politik und digital" in Fulda, the central question was therefore how digital publics influence democratic cooperation and political opinion formation.Social media, algorithms and the abundance of available content change the conditions under…