**** NYTimes: We Don’t Even Have to Look Up From Our Phones to Hate Each Other. Rj

We Don’t Even Have to Look Up From Our Phones to Hate Each Other nyti.ms/3NWBnRz

In an initial flush of romantic enthusiasm, social media and the communications revolution were thought to herald a brave new world of empowered citizens and unmediated, participatory democracy. Yet just a few years later, we have shifted to dystopian anxiety about social media’s tendencies to fuel political polarization, reward extremism, encourage a culture of outrage, and generally contribute to the degradation of civic discourse about politics.”
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