How Social Networks Are Torpedoing Truth — and Democracies across the Globe

Here's Joe’s take on the arguments Harari makes in his book, Nexus, and how they help explain the loss of trust and corresponding decline of community and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.

“Democracy runs on trust. Dictatorship runs on fear. The moment trust erodes — whether in institutions, elections, or truth itself — democracy crumbles.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The fundamental thing to understand is that social networks and their algorithms are destroying trust everywhere. Add the bad actors, autocrats around the globe, and Donald Trump — w…