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Key takeaways from The problem with social media is not content but its distortion of reality

The biggest problem with social media is not content. It is the way it distorts the reality of the public sphere.

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Social media has shattered the public sphere into a patchwork of smaller and smaller echo chambers, while obscuring the fact that these silos even exist.

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