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Social Warming

The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media

Charles Arthur
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Pages
304
Year
2021
Language
English

About

Nobody meant for this to happen.

Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide.

Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women.

YouTube never planned to radicalize young men.

But with billions of users, these platforms need only tweak their algorithms to generate more 'engagement'. In so doing, they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships.

Social warming has happened gradually — as a by-product of our preposterously convenient digital existence. But, the gradual deterioration of our attitudes and behavior on- and offline — this vicious cycle of anger and outrage — is real. And, it can be corrected. Here's how.

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