Good analysis but one can argue that a more recent development has been that the peer to peer nature of social media networks has qualitatively changed the nature of content consumption in that it's become increasingly decentralized and harder for the elites to control https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1057161821084217344 …
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This. The barriers to entry (FB/TWTR/etc. censorship aside) have dropped dramatically. Cable networks are insanely expensive to start and newspapers used to be local monopolies, while ideas can easily be seen by millions with virtually no investment via social media.
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Yeah it's a nightmare scenario for them - everyone's normie GOP grandpa is radicalizing and talking about caravans and Soros. Seems like a big shift from even 5 years ago.
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And that is despite a concerted effort by the social media network owners like FB and TWTR to clamp down on the spread of crimethink since 2016. But I think the genie might be out of the bottle.
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Also think social media created positive feedbacks on elite views that caused them to radicalize/accelerate, detached from normal political constraint- eg, Hillary's response to Dallas being that it taught us about the need to face unconscious bias
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