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Social media is making it harder to hear legitimate criticism

20 August 2019

2:16 AM

20 August 2019

2:16 AM

When was the last time you were in a Twitter mob? We know these maelstroms of anger so well now, and even remember the names of some of the people randomly caught up in them over the years too. There was Justine Sacco, who lost her job after tweeting a joke about AIDS, and Jon Ronson, who ended up getting it in the neck for writing about her.

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