Episode 26 - How do we deal with toxic Twitter, social media? (Round Table)
ROUND TABLE EPISODE: What do you do when you’re outraged every time you check your social media feed, but you just can’t stop yourself from looking anyway? How do we deal with toxic Twitter, ferocious Facebook, and social media that has grown to be less social and more sociopathic?
Nick and Dyer are joined by Genevieve Haas of After These Messages and the Grapes of Rad podcasts. The gang talks about some Twitter self-care and how social media platforms are designed to be habit forming, even addictive for their users.
Further reading:
How Russians got propaganda onto the Facebook feed of over 120 million Americans.
Toxic Twitter has turned social justice language into a weapon for censure.
- Some of the creators of tech’s most addictive features are unplugging and becoming critics of the tech giants they used to work for.