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Is This the First International Flashpoint for Social Media?
There is this sense or sort of a prevailing conventional wisdom that this is predominantly an American problem, right? Like just last week, the other day, Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan's podcast, he was asked about polarization and his response was that there was something uniquely American about it. And your book is this global adventure where you basically put that lie to the test. It's very clear that this is, although it's manifesting, metastasizing in the United States, it's an international problem. You're seeing incidents of animosity and violence and polarization that can directly be tracked back to how social media platforms are driving behavior.