Sublime

There are those who believe the social web is reaching its terminal point. I hope they’re right. Platform after platform was designed to make it easier and more addictive for us to share content with one another so the corporations behind them could sell ever more of our attention and data. In different ways, most of these platforms

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Social media algorithms identify our politics and then shepherd us into a hermetically sealed bubble, framing our worldview through a window of rage and extremism.

"The fundamental thing the media does all day, every day, is decide what to cover — decide, that is, what is newsworthy... Here’s the dilemma: to decide what to cover is to become the shaper of the news rather than a mirror held up to the news."