Twitter founder: presidency product of short attention spans
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Matthew Weaver
Wednesday 13 September 2017 05.19 EDT
... "The much bigger issue is ... is the quality of the information we consume that is reinforcing dangerous beliefs and isolating people and limiting people’s open-mindedness and respect for truth."
Evans, who has previously apologised for Twitter’s role in Trump’s election, added: "There is a media ecosystem that is supported and thrives on attention, period. And that is what’s making us dumber and not smarter, and Donald Trump is a symptom of that" ...
"Therefore quoting Trump’s tweets, or quoting the latest stupidest thing that any political candidate or anyone else says, is an effective way to exploit people’s basest instincts. And that is dumbing the entire world down" ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/13/twitter-founder-trump-presidency-short-attention-spans-evan-williams
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