It’s worse than the bad usenet because social media curated the content you engage with into a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop. Eg, my twitter feed sho

It’s worse than the bad usenet because social media curated the content you engage with into a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop. Eg, my twitter feed shows me tweets of similar themes to those that I recently engage with. The more I engage the more that theme dominates my feed. So it’s easy to see that someone who engages with tweets of any partisan political commentary can easily get pulled deeper and deeper into that murk with an echo chamber that filters out the opposing viewpoints. Besides politics the same can happen with conspiracy theories and religious zealotry.