“With the advent of social media, more news intake is curated by algorithms than editors, further increasing the nationalization of . . . well, everything. The same technology that decimated local media let national polarization flourish by elevating certain influential voices (including some of the same ones in right-wing partisan media) and silencing others.2 As national media became more influential, especially on our social networks, national politics became the stand-in for all our concerns about government.”
―
Sarah Stewart Holland,
Now What?: How to Move Forward When We're Divided
