Is social media turning us into a nation of zealots?

Trent Knuckles is publisher of The News Journal.

Is social media turning us into a nation of zealots?

That’s the main crux of some reporting that’s coming out of legitimate journalistic publications here lately. The stories are based on a series of studies that are pointing to a link between increasing consumption of social media as a source of current events news, and the rise in seemingly hardened, entrenched and extreme attitudes among people.