Nobody is against empathy. Everybody is against empathy for the wrong people. That's the whole game, and both sides are running it. There's a loud fight right now over whether empathy is a virtue or a weakness, and both camps are missing the same thing. It's the more interesting thing.

The algorithm doesn’t radicalize you all at once. It curates you into a corner, one recommended post at a time, until the corner feels like the whole room.

Social media was not created to inform you. It was built to keep you engaged and engagement runs on outrage, confirmation, and the warm certainty of always being right.

The people it has most profoundly diminished are not who you’d expect. It captured the smart ones.