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In our penultimate episode in this series David talks to writer Sam Freedman about whether democracy can cope with the demands of the social media age. Are we really more vulnerable to disinformation than we have ever been? Is the bigger problem our ever-shrinking attention spans or our ever-divided politics? What happens to democracy as visual communication squeezes out the written word? And what might make things better?
Sam Freedman’s Substack is Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Next time on Fixing Democracy: Confronting the Strongmen
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In our penultimate episode in this series David talks to writer Sam Freedman about whether democracy can cope with the demands of the social media age. Are we really more vulnerable to disinformation than we have ever been? Is the bigger problem our ever-shrinking attention spans or our ever-divided politics? What happens to democracy as visual communication squeezes out the written word? And what might make things better?
Sam Freedman’s Substack is Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Next time on Fixing Democracy: Confronting the Strongmen
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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