What was supposed to be so brilliant about the internet was that people would suddenly be able to erode all those barriers and talk to anyone, anywhere. But what actually happened was an amplification of the same trends that took hold of a country’s physical spaces. 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,
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