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The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?

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Physical proximity created familiarity and shared identities that helped people tolerate differences without destroying cooperation.
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The evidence poorly supports the idea that online filter bubbles isolate people ideologically. Extreme filter bubbles are rare.
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Online, people encounter more ideological diversity than offline, where their real-world networks are more politically homogeneous.
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The social internet delivers more disagreement than human cooperation mechanisms can process, making those mechanisms malfunction.
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Engagement-driven platforms amplify anger: angry users share and interact more, so algorithms promote increasingly extreme disagreements.
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Your brain turns disagreement into identity, classifying people as teams and making their views harder to consider.
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Once opposing teams form, the most extreme views of a few members get blamed on everyone else.
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Shared worldviews make people trust in-group opinions and reject negative information about members of their own group.
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Democracy needs social glue. Treating fellow citizens as evil destroys the possibility of living together.

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