🔮 Robots vs workers; naughty Huawei; private social media; Harari & wheels++ #257

Did social media really cause political polarisation? No.

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💯 Did social media really cause political polarisation? Ezra Klein reckons the roots of polarisation run much deeper. I agree with him. (At least one recent academic paper says that social media leads to more varied news diets. That doesn’t mean that co-ordinated trolling…