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Flat White

Is virtue signalling our new social currency?

20 March 2019

7:36 AM

20 March 2019

7:36 AM

The internet was imagined by its pioneers to be the arbiter of a new information renaissance, believing that it would revolutionise the way we learn and communicate. Instead, it has devolved into a platform for individuals to build their social currencies through virtue signalling and social justice stunts while it continually strips us of our attention spans.

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