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• @alexkerrsnp Alex Kerr on x

  👇 Really interesting article on how the very nature of social media platforms plays a part in how we discuss important issues. https://twitter.com/...

• @alexgpaterson Alex Paterson on x

  Will be thinking about this for a bit. Great piece, @elamin88 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @shashanakhai Shasha Nakhai on x

  “Our behaviors on these platforms are too often conflated with who we are. This is to our detriment. We forget that the platforms themselves impact behavior, mediate it, intercept it, and reframe it.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @elamin88

• @tompowercbc Tom Power on x

  Just what I needed to read today. Thanks @elamin88 https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Social media creates context collapse, where comments that are fine to make to friends & family are called out by the public for their racism & sexism. Cancel culture comes out of this but it's clearly a human versus technology problem. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @jimwaterson Jim Waterson on x

  On ‘cancel culture’ and what is happening: “Maybe we were never meant to shout across a room of millions, and maybe the people who designed the room should be held responsible.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @bradesposito Brad on x

  I would argue that we can blame everyone, but this is quite good https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @mrjkilcoyne Matt Kilcoyne on x

  Buzzfeed is one of the tech companies that used cancel culture extensively to try and profit. https://twitter.com/...

• @verba_et_vertus Virginia Murr on x

  If you read nothing else today. Read this article. All of it. “The ‘trending’ culture that technology companies have built has created the illusion that whatever a few people are yelling about online is what really matters on any given day. It's all smoke and mirrors.” https://tw…

• @elle_hunt Elle Hunt on x

  “The way we talk on the internet is broken, and users are not the ones who broke it — tech companies did that, and they did it for profit” YES https://twitter.com/...

• @ajreinhart Anthony Reinhart on x

  “Maybe we were never meant to shout across a room of millions, and maybe the people who designed the room should be held responsible for the echo that bounces off the walls perpetually until we mistake it for conversation.” Cogent insights from @elamin88 https://twitter.com/...

• @awilsonsmith Anthony Wilson-Smith on x

  On various fronts, @elamin88 has become one of the smartest, most incisive and must-read voices around. As he shows here -again. https://twitter.com/...

• @scottlucas Scott Lucas on x

  “The way we talk on the internet is broken, and users are not the ones who broke it — tech companies did that, and they did it for profit.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @elamin88

• @cornies Larry Cornies on x

  “Algorithms intent on driving more emotional content to users have allowed for thriving hyperpartisan echo chambers that hinge on feeding an outrage machine.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @elamin88

• @landofsticks Matt Stickland on x

  “But heralding themselves as champions of free speech on ginormous scales just obfuscates their actual purpose: to monetize our interactions in order to grow.” https://www.buzzfeed.com/...

• @ckozalbrennan Christopher Kozal Brennan on x

  “The “trending” culture that technology companies have built has created the illusion that whatever a few people are yelling about online is what really matters on any given day. It's all smoke and mirrors” ⁦@elamin88⁩ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @ashleyokwuosa Ashley on x

  “So many critiques of “cancel culture” are missing the disease for the symptoms. The actual problem is that we've been given faulty technological tools with which to have a digital conversation.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @elamin88

• @ejessicajohnson Jessica Johnson on x

  I think about this a lot: “Our behaviors on these platforms are too often conflated with who we are. This is to our detriment. We forget that the platforms themselves impact behaviour, mediate it, intercept it, and reframe it.” Great story by @elamin88 https://www.buzzfeednews.co…

• @imtheq Amanda Quraishi on x

  This is a great piece but it's too convenient to place 100% of the problem with our current lack of digital civics on platform owners. Shitty digital cultures existed long before Facebook and Twitter. There's plenty of blame to go around. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @elamin88 Elamin Abdelmahmoud on x

  I wrote for @reader: Cancel culture is not a coherent ideology or a rot at the core of liberalism. Yes, the way we talk on the internet is broken, but it's a technology problem, not a people problem. Platforms should have to answer for this. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen on x

  “'We're trending and worried about it' is not just cause. The villain you're looking for — the real cancel culture — is at-will employment, and the ability of employers to dismiss an employee without legitimate reasons.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @stephemcneal Stephanie McNeal on x

  YES. This is a huge problem. How can we as media fix this? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @fergushunter Fergus Hunter on x

  This piece by @elamin88 is outrageously good. Nails many key points about how social media platforms have warped discourse and fuelled “cancel culture”. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  best thing i've read about the internet in quite a while https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...