The Politics of Social Media

I think we often over blame social media thinking if we can just get Twitter to correct that darn algorithm, then everything will be okay. And that's not the case at all. I'm not a historian of American technology, but my understanding is that Twitter was in its infancy in 1861. We were perfectly capable of killing each other well before Twitter reached its full bloom. So we are separating in almost every way you can imagine. And when that happens, we are building a case against each other of radicalism and of grievance.