so i think it's basically that in 2014, tech realized that a million people's feelings on a topic could be focused into a laser and aimed at one entity, and this was exciting because we had seen the Arab Spring. we did not realize that Gamergate and the Arab Spring were the same. https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1324123349468020738
"surely the truth will win out" was a piety so deeply engrained in our culture that no one questioned it. and then came a wave of reactionary politics which, to an algorithm which can see the graph but not what travels along it, looked the same as the Arab Spring.
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