It created opportunity for new voices but also privileged a political “big sort” that makes politics more confrontational & harder lined twitter.com/douglascarswel…
The risk is that people with low confidence or mild preferences are driven away from something that seems full of angry voices.
That’s bad for them, bad for society (lower engagement) and for government (lower opinion diversity = worse policies).
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 7 July 2017. View the original thread.