The danger now is the extremism that social media hate algorithms has manufactured. Social media algorithms have allowed for a toxicity of debate that is easily manipulated. Millennial woke culture sees macro violence coming from micro aggressions and piously police those micro aggressions with virtue signalling purity mantras. Most people are on social media and most people have a woke activist or Qanon fanatic in their social media feed screaming their feverish truths. Before social media activists could only face each other off at protests or through letters to the editor or talkback radio.
Source: New Zealand Herald June 11, 2024 05:26 UTC