alt Hacker NewsI'm not convinced social media is to blame. Plenty of extremist movements have arisen throughout history without social media. Politics has been bad for a long long time before social media existed.
I'm not convinced social media is to blame. Plenty of extremist movements have arisen throughout history without social media. Politics has been bad for a long long time before social media existed.
They did exist, but you had to seek them out. You had to send them a letter and ask for their pamphlets to be mailed back to you.
Now you have right-wing extremists running the sites and deciding what you should view, just look at Twitter/X and Musk.