Social Media Veers Right

New York Times: “If the election underscored anything about the internet, it was how far social media platforms had moved to the right. While Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other sites continue to be popular gathering places for entertainment and meme-making, political discourse online has increasingly shifted to an array of mostly right-wing sites that have built up their audiences and stoked largely partisan conversations.”

“The change was an unintended consequence of a series of decisions made by some of the biggest social platforms nearly four years ago.”