> I reckon that even at its height the type of people likely to be labeled conspiracy theorists and white supremacists were more common offline than online.
My ~50 years of life experience leads me to suspect the exact opposite.
New fancy soapboxes have distorted our understanding of each other, deeply. They amplify, magnify, and otherwise inflate the sense that fringe ideas are more widely represented.
My ~50 years of life experience leads me to suspect the exact opposite.
New fancy soapboxes have distorted our understanding of each other, deeply. They amplify, magnify, and otherwise inflate the sense that fringe ideas are more widely represented.