Hey, good question. It's just a website, right? Until maybe two years ago, we hadn't really thought that social media could be all that important. We'd mostly covered "serious" stories like wars, global politics, mass immigration. But around the end of 2017 we started seeing more and more indications that social media was playing more of an active, and at times destructive, role in shaping the world than we'd realized.
Why did it take until the end of 2017 to start taking social media seriously? So many academics and activists have been begging traditional news outlets to take social media seriously as a force for social change. (in this case radicalization).
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Why did it take until the end of 2017 to start taking social media seriously? So many academics and activists have been begging traditional news outlets to take social media seriously as a force for social change. (in this case radicalization).
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