Jonathan Haidt on the Impact of “Enhanced Virality” of Social Media

A democracy cannot survive if its public squares are places where people fear speaking up and where no stable consensus can be reached. Social media’s empowerment of the far left, the far right, domestic trolls, and foreign agents is creating a system that looks less like democracy and more like rule by the most aggressive.

from Haidt, J. (2022, April 11). Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid. The Atlantic.