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Why is our political discourse so divisive? How much of it is technology's fault? and Who needs to step up and fix it? Tom talks with Yaël Eisenstat, a policy adviser at the Center for Humane Technology about all these questions. 

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Anonymous

While it's not really possible to dive deeply in such a short interview, I appreciate the fact that she brings up the shared responsibility of consumers, business, and government in both creating and solving the problem of divisive political discourse. A lot of people will place the blame or responsibility solely on one of these groups (with "free market" often being a rhetorical substitute for consumers).

Anonymous

I also agree that the problem is systemic, so it's not really "tech's" social disruptions as such, but rather society's recent downward trend to disruption, and tech's role in it.