It seems to me that an enormous amount of social media content consists of ideological plagiarism. It is just an inordinate number of people who have coalesced around a particular set of polarized perspectives , and then trade volleys back and forth using other people’s arguments and talking points as if they are their own….
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Perhaps because social media developed so rapidly, we have yet t…
Perhaps because social media developed so rapidly, we have yet to calibrate how we gauge its actual importance. We have not really understood the extent to which online opinion reflects genuine public opinion, and how a trending hashtag translates into real world leverage. As a result, I think we are granting disproportionate real world leverage…