"A medium gets the content it deserves." Said Marshall McLuhan. Twitter is a minimalist virtue signalling platform that selects for sensation and controversy.

"A medium gets the content it deserves." Said Marshall McLuhan. Twitter is a minimalist virtue signalling platform that selects for sensation and controversy. Nothing in the article should come as a surprise to anyone read up on their Chomsky. If Trump had used traditional presidential communication channels, his pulpit would not have have the same capacity for amplifying disinformation and fomenting outrage. The mainstream media earned many clicks in their expressions of outrage over the last several years. The whole media ecosystem was either complicit or counter-complicit to Trump's BS, and the national discourse is now a dumpster fire. It's not that the real issue is this or the real issue is that. I'd like to nominate "comorbidities" as the word of the year.