A gap in my education that I look forward to filling, thank you! I’m curious about a specifically-online dynamic that the Persuasion author highlights: that is,

A gap in my education that I look forward to filling, thank you! I’m curious about a specifically-online dynamic that the Persuasion author highlights: that is, it used to be the family and community could keep a lid on the crank flat-earther uncle, now he’s in algorithmically-catalyzed community and cohesion with 5,000,000 other crank uncles. It feels like there must be a lot of good thought about that new mode of bottom-up legitimacy-building (and of impugning fustier real-world institutions)—would you happen to have any reading suggestions off the top of your head?