Social media lies can unleash a dangerous contempt for others. We can stop it | Max Jeganathan

Sat, 27 Apr 2024

In our atomised society, we don’t just reject ideas and identities, we dehumanise those who hold them. There is a way out

The Bondi Junction attacker and the teen who allegedly stabbed the bishop used knives, but judging from the online reaction to both events, many of us have a different weapon in our hands: our smartphones.

Some fault lines simmer under our headlines – landlords v renters, ute drivers v EV advocates, zoomers v boomers. But sporadic moments of horror reveal our trust deficit.