Open in app
Ev Williams
216K Followers
About

Sign in

216K Followers
About
Open in app
Ev Williams

Ev Williams

·Oct 20, 2020

“The tendrils of current polarization in the U.S. can be traced back to the 1990s or even before. In parallel tracks, an increasingly paranoid and rigid worldview developed across much of the far-right that was driven by radio. On the left, increasing radicalization was spurred through academic channels, i.e., mostly through books and academia.”

How The Social Dilemma Got Social Media Mostly Wrong by Christopher J. Ferguson

  • The Social Dilemma
  • Polarization

More from Ev Williams

CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas

More From Medium

US government specifies Huawei ‘detente’

Phil Siarri

Two Conventions — In One Nation Divided Between Liberalism and Populism

Nick Licata in Politics: Fast and Slow

Real Interesting Primary Results In Florida With Profound National Implications

Eric J Scholl

Blue Wave Obscures Successful GOP Gerrymanders

m2c4

Trump Derangement Syndrome is Very Real

Will Staton

Commentary: Graham’s support for a Supreme Court nominee puts SC health care at risk

Ben Jealous

The DNC Shows Young Voters They Are Not Welcome

Right Smack in the Middle in Liberation Day

Saving Liberal Democracy From the Extremes

The Financial Times in Financial Times

About

Help

Legal

Get the Medium app

A button that says 'Download on the App Store', and if clicked it will lead you to the iOS App store
A button that says 'Get it on, Google Play', and if clicked it will lead you to the Google Play store