MY USA TODAY COLUMN: The Trouble With Twitter. “If you set out to design a platform that would poison America’s discourse and its politics, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more destructive than Twitter.”
Meanwhile, this piece on how Bari Weiss and Eve Peyser hated each other on Twitter, but became friends when they met in person, underscores my point. Quote: “Everything sucks. That’s the overwhelming feeling I get when I spend too much time on Twitter. It makes me feel anxious and angry and amped up. And that’s on a day when I’m not even trending as a Very Bad Person.”