On how social media fractures us

[xiphias]

Why is it so hard to understand how people who are politically different from you are thinking?

Most of us get a lot of our news, and even more of the commentary on our news, through social media. And modern social media algorithmically decides what will make us feel best to see, and that is things which comfort us by reinforcing our mindset.

You and I are genuinely not seeing the news stories that would be letting us know why people on the other side feel the way they do, and they're not seeing the ones we do. We can't understand, because our social media are literally preventing us from seeing the information that we could use to understand why other people are coming to the same conclusions they are.

Comments

[medievalbooks]

That is why I distrust most info that is shared. The news is all biased these days. Pretty sad when I have to Snopes most things. And friends share info they know to be incorrect just to get folk's reactions. I know people/family who believe in matters on either end of the political spectrum and no, they are not demons.