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The Active Voice: Taylor Lorenz still believes in the internet

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The Role of Twitter in Conflict

I think there are good people who do bad things and that these systems make us behave in ways that are not the best reflections of who we are as people. The far right, I mean, since Game or Gate, which was really the playbook for a lot of this stuff, they've just been very effective at building these movements and sort of pushing anti-progressiveism online through certain tactics. It's also you have to remember that these platforms are built to amplify certain things, right? And they recognize that and feed into that very well. They're very adept at, you know, these types of hate campaigns. You have to have a clear kind of enemy because every YouTuber

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