Vox: The democratization of media

[zoogs]

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/26/13413292/social-media-disrupting-politics

 

Or, "why nonsense spreads on social media."

 

Good insights There's good and there's bad here. As a volume problem, on the surface, it seems on balance bad: on average, there is *less* quality filtering and *more* partisanship when everybody has a megaphone, and the mean/median consumer is unlikely to be very discerning of the difference.

[BigRedBuster]

I've been saying a lot of the same things.

 

Good description of the problem.