I agree with you that it’s worthwhile to read what everyone has to say. One problem is that Facebook and Twitter, not to mention the NYT and the rest of the me

I agree with you that it’s worthwhile to read what everyone has to say. One problem is that Facebook and Twitter, not to mention the NYT and the rest of the media, are not that. Social media places you in a filter bubble, and whatever you click on first shapes everything you’ll see forever, such that your entire worldview is shifted. The media does essentially the same thing, tailoring it’s articles to match a particular target audience and then feeding them more and more of what they want to hear. I don’t really know how we break out of this, but I think some level of decentralization - breaking up the social media networks so none of them have more reach than say, CNN, would be a good start.