> The other big feature of social media is that it brings diffuse minorities together. Before social media, outliers were unlikely to meet those with similar in

> The other big feature of social media is that it brings diffuse minorities together. Before social media, outliers were unlikely to meet those with similar inclinations. Social media powered cohesion of groups from gays to Proud Boys to flat-earthers. And this is mostly a great thing. Like the internet started this, but Facebook (and Twitter I suppose) made it mainstream. We're essentially in another time period like the one after the invention of the printing press, where the mechanisms for controlling the spread of information break down, and something new is born. Unfortunately, it's much easier for journalists/policymakers et al to blame "Big Tech" rather than realise that to some extent, we are all to blame.