How to Solve the Facebook Problem

There has been a lot of scrutiny placed on social media recently in light of the Facebook Papers, and while social media has opened the line of communication for many, maybe we weren’t meant to talk to each other so much? The number of meaningful relationships a person can have is far less than the number of people you can accumulate in a social network, and that’s where the problems can start. Both genuine speech and misinformation gets muddled together very quickly. Ian Bogost, contributing writer at The Atlantic and Director of Film and Media Studies at Washington University, joins us for more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com