YOU NEED TO PLAY THIS GAME.

Seriously - doesn't take that long, and when you have? You'll understand a LOT more about what makes some corners of the social media landscape SO messed-up and extreme these days, and will hopefully be able to see the signs and be immune to it.

"I think the problem with social media, search and the internet more broadly is that they are profoundly distorting. Some of these technologies are often predatory- used to weaponize, inflame and incite hate instead of educate, because it gets more engagement. So platforms are implicated in trafficking in hate on the internet and in real life."