The media are obsessed with tweets – whether they are from the Kardashian clan or the President of the United States – and Americans, particularly young Americans, think they are “in the know” by staying on top of what’s trending in social media.
But what do we really know? We know what “everyone” is talking about, but I suspect we’d all have to admit that social media is confirmation bias writ large. We seek what we want to hear, we retweet what we already agree with, and we argue with (rather than seek to understand) points of view we don’t already embrace.
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