Due to social media, literally anyone with internet access and a loud voice has been able to get attention for any crackpot political opinion.
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So everyone’s opinion is against democracy?
Nah, it’s worse than just giving everyone a voice. That wouldn’t be too bad.
The really bad part is that they figured out about more extreme/controversial/negative voices tend to draw more engagement, more time spent on platform, and therefore more ad views. Facebook and the rest didn’t just give the worst of us a voice – they amplified the voices of the worst of us, far more than for normal people, all in the name of squeezing just a little bit more profit out of the system.