Would we be less divided if..

I tend to agree. However, my observation is that the politics (in the widest sense) of small villages can be pretty damn nasty.

It's not even a debate, the answer is straight up yes. If information was distributed fairly and not for a quick buck then there would be a chance but as it stands now the media establishment has blood on it's hands.

Mothafucka. Ain't no media in da hood. Just guns here. We bust caps in various asses and da only divide here is between niggas with money and dead ass hoes

You're looking at the problem at face value, if you want division to cease to the large extent it has then you need to identify where the root is. Who is orchestrating it? If you can follow the trail to the center then the division will cease. At least before someone takes their place.

Absolutely. People go to places that confirm their bias and that's all they listen to. The world would be a much better place without mainstream media.

100%. Main stream media, atleast in the U.S., is desperate for eyeballs, "if it bleeds it leads", was the mantra forever. Social media algorithms have figured out that people will focus on things that give them anger or joy. That is not to mention foreign actors infiltrating and manipulating social media.

The answer is it happens faster with Social Media because people tend to weed people out based on what they share there at times and that same person may take years to share it offline if at all

Nothing would change where I live. Nobody talks to each other here, we just stay in our houses & maybe at most wave at one another when we go to/get home from work. I've lived in the same house since I was 8 & I've never even laid eyes on 4 of my 6 of my neighbors let alone talked to them or learned their names.

Where I live, people are pretty crazy. If the media stopped existing, we'd be at each others' throats over something else silly in, like, 3 hours or so? I shudder at what kind of kookie, homegrown conspiracy theories might crop up in my county.