We’re being deafened by digital noise. Pause it and you hear the sound of democracy in crisis | Rafael Behr | The Guardian

History has had a number of these explosive profusions of interconnectedness, driven by a radical innovation in communication technology. But not many. The writer Naomi Alderman calls them “information crises”, and argues that the present one is only the third. The printing press was the second. The invention of writing some time around the fourth millennium BC was the first.
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