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Are conspiracy theories getting worse, with Jonn Elledge

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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Is Twitter's Fault?

We've lost the ability to disagree with each other in a constructive way. Partly because of social mediam and twitter, forcing us into those campss. The algorithms for social media awed people for being devisive. And then you don't have to disagree with them. You just have to go after the conspiracy behind them. What's going on? Bitically, what i'm asking is it all twitter's fault? I think a lot of things are twitter's fault, up to including my career, really.

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