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We might have hoped that the increased connection and access to knowledge brought by the information revolution would also deepen empathy across differing conditions and perspectives, broaden agreement on established truths, and bring our large country closer together. Sadly, that hasn't happened.

Highly Profitable Algorithms that accompany this era have instead deepened our fragmentation, offering the seductive comfort of self-affirming information bubbles — bubbles further inflated by political and foreign actors with their own incentives to polarize and distort.

Portrait of America at the Crossroads shares the perspectives of ordinary Americans who don't typically command a microphone, aiming to surface the lived experiences and real concerns that may be hidden below the talking points.

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