><i>the gate keepers of old media kept us safe by drip feeding us outrage. Now we are drinking from the social media firehose, always on, always connected, constantly fatigued.</i><p>><i>Choose your channel and pick your side, you’re either with us or against us. All those complex issues boil down to a binary yes or no, this is what defines who you are, are you good or evil?</i><p>Quite the heavy, negative manifesto for a piece about the negative undertone of common words.<p>I don't quite know how word frequency necessary has anything to do with trust (or lack thereof), but.. Interesting to see that "milkshake duck" made the 2017 list.