The Troubling Radicalization of Elon M.
Using social media platforms can lead to self-radicalization. Apparently, so can owning one.
The internet, a (largely) unregulated cesspool of propaganda and misinformation, has made it easy for just about anybody to become radicalized. Even worse, the social media companies that host this “information” are encouraging impressionable individuals to wade right into that cesspool and go deeper and deeper until many of them can no longer get out.
The classic example may be the one of Western, secular Muslims stumbling across a YouTube video and descending on a downward spiral that ends with them joining ISIS. But self-radicalization isn’t a problem that is limited to a specific group of people or an ideology.
No matter which philosophy or belief system you adhere to, an extreme version of it is now just a few clicks away… and some of those who tumble down that rabbit’s hole often become a danger to themselves and others.
