Austin – The internet, for all the ways it connects us and opens up our worlds, is also an often hellish place. Social media, in particular, are increasingly concentrated places to witness all our capacity for cruelty in an endless scroll. All one needs to do is look at the site formerly known as Twitter to see post after post of everything from AI-generated spam to open hate speech to get a sense of just how horrible these spaces can be.

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