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In Bari's recent podcast discussing the trail, near the end, Bari insightfully asks, "How can we live in a world in which people don't believe the results of elections, what they read in the paper, and that people are getting a fair trial? A world where people don't believe there's a pandemic and don't believe the CDC is telling the truth. How can we live in such a world?"

To that I wonder how it will end when you amplify the profound distrust of institutions with the algos in social media tuned to maximize social engagement and profits? Are we on the edge of a civil war with people fighting in the streets with pipes and axes and even guns, not unlike what we routinely saw in Portland only recently?

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