Philipp Markolin explains:
"An evidence-based worldview has come under attack from rightwing populist movements all around the world. Fueling the rise of these precarious political parties is a broken information ecosystem that came about by the technological disruption of the information age, especially the social media platform giants of the web 2.0.
It seems that only now people begin to truly realize that silicon valley moved fast and broke things, with no idea of how to put back together the pieces.
Many still dispute what exactly went wrong; misinformation, polarization, extremism, algorithms, influence operations … a long list of symptoms and culprits are offered; but no coherent picture of how they all relate to each other.
So maybe I can share how I think about the bigger picture after spending a great deal immersing myself in the topic; and lay out, as simple as I can, what goes wrong in the information ecosystems we currently inhabit.
As always, there is a handy summary infographic, free to use:
More - much more good stuff - at https://www.protagonist-science.com/p/how-social-media-destroys-democratic
