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Future Prospects – “SoMe4Dem” And How Social Media Can Damage or Strengthen Democracy

Fake news, manipulation, and opinion mongering – social media has made it easy to blur the lines between facts and opinions and influence public opinion on a massive scale. And this could be dangerous, and on a massive scale. That is why Stephan Lewandowsky has launched a project that has been investigating since January 2024 how social media influence democracy. “’Social media for democracy – understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship’ is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary project: The researchers come from the fields of philosophy, political science, computer science, mathematics, network science, and cognitive science, like myself.” Lewandowsky is a visiting professor at the University of Potsdam and holds the Chair of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bristol in England.

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