Looking for a succinct primer for those politically disengaged folks who are tuning out because "both sides have gotten so mean". Obviously the contradictions are heightening but how do you ease in a materialist perspective when someone is already so exhausted by "bias"
The Filter Bubble does a good job of laying out the profit motive in setting up echo chambers and farming clicks and attention. The author is a bit of a lib but he points in the right direction instead of just treating it as an aggregate of personal decisions.