Facebook is making fools of us
08 August 2016 - 09:35
Facebook recently reported that, globally, its 1.65 billion active users spend an average of 60 minutes a day on the site. So, what's the effect of Facebook on our public discourse? Without putting too fine a point on it, Facebook has had a terrible effect on the level of discourse globally. It bears a lot of the blame for the soundbite-laden, fact-free shouting match that much of modern politics has become.
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