On social media, a tendency to connect disparate news stories is causing many of us to lose our sense of reality, says journalist Rachel Connolly
I see this in the inclination to stitch together disparate cultural events that has become widespread on social media. The tendency to think that everything can be linked to something else, or compared, or both, and hence explained. The recent Oscars slap by the actor Will Smith was compared, nonsensically, to both Harvey Weinstein’s sustained history of sexual abuse and harassment, and. This was just one recent example of something that happens all the time.
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