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Just a quick heads up.

There's a little swearing in this episode.

Casey, how many conversations do you think you have had since the 2016 election about how internet platforms and social media are hurting democracy.

I mean, it's sort of become the background chatter to every conversation I have about my beat.

Casey Newton writes the newsletter, Platformer, and he's been reporting on tech and the internet for years.

You know, when I started covering these issues, I don't think the sort of intersection of tech and democracy had not been a particularly hot topic. And then in the wake of the election,

it was sort of all anyone wanted to talk about. And it sort of felt like we spent the five years

after the election, just sort of reliving it every day. It's something we've covered extensively on this show.

The idea that social media algorithms are primed to amplify content that is outrageous or

offensive to spread misinformation about COVID-19 or conspiracy theories about the 2020 election,

or to be used to incite events like the Capitol riots.

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