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Jacob Siegel: Social Media Censorship and the Hoax of the Century

From the New World

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The Causal Link Between Social Media and Sam Harris's Political Orientation

Sally Kohn: I think there's some kind of causal link between the underlying technology or environment of the internet to, you know, Sam Harris's political orientation. She says digital technology with social media in particular, simply overwhelmed and radically destabilized established hierarchies. Kohn: This is not an argument in favor of that process; it's a description of that process. The proliferation of conspiracy thinking is one classic example online, she says.

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