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With all due respect to @JonHaidt, I increasingly suspect that pieces like this really aren’t about how social media corrupt society, but rather a projection of increasing confusion and frustration within the elite onto society. Short 🧵 1/7 theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
First, romanticism about the “early” Internet or social media in the early 00s overlooks how elitist the early Internet was. Large parts of the population simply weren’t online. There was a notable class divide in Internet access. 2/7 pewresearch.org/internet/2015/…
Second, accounts focusing on how social media make politics stupider often overlook how politics is only a tiny, tiny fraction of what the average social media user consumes online. If you consume a lot of politics on Twitter, you are the outlier! 3/7 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
