People spend hours on social media, following people like them, reading news articles “curated” for them by algorithms whose only morality is click-through rates—articles that do nothing but reinforce a unidimensional point of view and take users to extremes to keep them clicking. What we’re seeing is a cognitive segregation, where people exist in their own informational ghettos. We are seeing the segregation of our realities. If Facebook is a “community,” it is a gated one.
