We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong
It's not about misinformation, it's about groups with collective misunderstandings:
The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.
I really like this subtle shift in perspective. It aligns with my distrust of social media as distorting people's behavior around chasing engagement but he actually identifies a more specific issue:
The more important change is to our beliefs about what other people think
Our beliefs and opinions about the world are influenced by what we think other people think and social media is a (distorted) machine that tells us what other people think.