16 March

US influencers by follower numbers. Red is conservative, blue Democrat. There’s a lot of angst about mis/disinformation today. Societies don’t run on information, they run on status. They’re not a huge crowd of people swapping their ‘free speech’, they’re hubs of influence creating closed universes of meaning for their followers. The loudest voices for free speech are the leaders of these hubs, usually already the only voices being heard.