I was in a debate last week, 'This House Believes Social Media is Undermining Democracy'. After a lot of thinking and worrying, I think it is. A thread here to explain why I think that.
I'm not talking about the origin of these technologies, I'm talking about the politics that they supported. Within living memory, the newspaper was the dominant mode of political communication.
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Can you link to evidence for that please? Radio is incredibly important for politics.
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You could be right. It also has a very different pattern of control -- maybe the reason newspapers stayed important is precisely because they could be more diverse.
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All I'm saying is that these comparisons are important. The USSR ran newspapers in the UK. Probably the CIA did too.
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