I'm firmly convinced that social media is little more than a scapegoat here. Yes, there are incentives to spread polarizing news and echo chambers, but this is

I'm firmly convinced that social media is little more than a scapegoat here. Yes, there are incentives to spread polarizing news and echo chambers, but this is an endemic problem in journalism that sells to both consumers and advertisers. The idea that the problem will somehow vanish if we no longer discuss the world around us publicly (or indeed that those running social media are even capable of stopping this) is absurd.