Jonathan Haidt on Why Public Discourse Has Become So Stupid
The Good Fight
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Social Media Is Hyper Viralized
Before social media, i presume it's always been the case that the most politically active are the people in the extremes. And so we have a kind of u shaped function where participation is lower in the middle and higher at the ends. So four groups become hyper empowered by the hyper vyralized social media, and the remaining eight % of the population lose his voice. That's what happened to us after two thousand nine t two thousand 12. On th hidden tribe, study the far left and far right, they go zooming up. And so do trolls, and so do russian agents and other foreign agents a look the c i a. My views.
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