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Social Media Is the New Religion of Catastrophe
Many of us are asking whether we're witnessing the beginning of the end of our political and social order in some sense. There has been a breakdown of competence on so many fronts that it's fairly fantasmagorical at this point, says Julian Zelizer. Social media is amplifying doubts about everything by exaggerating the severity of real problems, but also by inventing imaginary ones, he adds.