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Can You Make People Change Their Minds On Social Media?
Season 6 Episode 2 | 8m 56s
| Video has closed captioning.
Who hasn't witnessed a toxic conversation online? Thanks to something called the 'disinhibition effect' people feel free to say things on the internet that they wouldn't say IRL. But under the right conditions, people just might change their minds about hot-button issues.