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The Age of Conspiracy?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Is Social Media Bringing Happiness?

I find it fascinating that social media is both comforting and infuriating. It's more about having a stable identity than any idea of happiness, he says. And often, if you believe something extreme, then you're turning up the volume on your identity. He adds: "Social media is not a marketplace of ideas, it's a marketplace of identity"

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