This whole article sounds like the US Administrative State complaining they can't control the narrative anymore because all of their "institutions" have been found to be fronts for elites.
I definitely agree with the idea that social media has created a bunch of "odd" groups and a ton of division, but sometimes I wonder what the alternative is.<p>It seems like prior to social media we had mass media and that served as basically the forcing function, there was a more national concept of shame.<p>Nowadays the concept of social shaming doesn't really work because you have competing factions with belief systems that are so far apart that all you really get is shaming "within the group".
The crazy part of the babel myth is that it tells a store of what seems like the first time in human history where people of all backgrounds came together, lived in peace, made technological progress, and god couldn't stand that, as it wanted the people dumb, scared and fractured.<p>It seems the pattern keeps repeating to today.