>>11790387Social media polarization is tearing democracy apart. People have way too much free time and spend it in echo chambers which reinforce their viewpoints to the extreme, without hearing opposing sides of a debate. Leading to outrage culture and radicalization of both the left and the right.
If you spend all your time reading twitters about police brutality, the algorythm will suggest more of the same, and you end up believing all cops are psychopaths that need to be defunded.
If you spend all your time reading tweets defending the orange man, you are only exposed to more of the same kind of tweets, and you start believing there is some global soros conspiracy of organized protests against him and that there is no possibility that some of the outrage may be legitimate.
I don't know how to solve this. Regulating the internet seems too much of a draconian solution. But places like Twitter or YouTube should be forced to retool their algorythms so people are exposed to opposing political viewpoints of what they like, rather than the opposite.
Social media autism is undermining democracy. People see the others as enemies rather than fellow humans with dissenting opinions.
