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  • Social media simply allows people to post things publicly. The fact that one feels more anonymous when doing so is a side effect of the human condition, not the fault of the platforms. What this has led to is a rise in the visibility of extremist thinking, allowing those that would normally hide those views to see that others share them. As such people will congregate to places online where they feel welcome for the views they hold. Again, this is just human nature.

    Now, could social media platforms do more to curb extremist viewpoints? Sure, but you run into privacy issues and… well, we’re already dealing with that, so if they’re going to track everything people say anyway they might as well try to make their platforms less vitriolic. But they don’t, because they’d lose users, and users are the only metric by which their platforms make any kind of income.