- (2024, free) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4860527
- (2021, pay walled) https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-abstract/54/4/54/119024/Killing-Politics-SoftlyUnconvincing-Propaganda-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext
I don’t have a background in science, I learned of the 2021 study as a footnote in a book I’m reading.
I’m curious to see what more attention this will get over the coming years.
Long ago, I read an article of how propoganda was used heavily in WW2 by Germany against its citizens to help unify the country behind an authoritarian regieme and how the rise of a national trusted news source, decouoled from government and private interests was created to reduce polarization.
Found it: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/what-germany-can-teach-america-about-polarization/619582/
Archived, non paywall version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210810211957/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/what-germany-can-teach-america-about-polarization/619582/