Ethan Zuckerman writes about social media getting smaller, allowing for more people to connect, but also more extremism to arise.
"We need small-room networks—they introduce strangers to one another, building social capital and connection between people who might never interact in the physical world. But they further fragment the public sphere, which means the 2024 election may be even more fractious than the ones we’ve seen thus far in our social media age."
Read more in WIRED.