From the Arab Spring uprisings to the ongoing electoral gains of the radical right and left to the rise of anti-science sentiment, the past 15 years have been characterised by waves of populism, polarisation and an erosion of trust in experts, expertise and the establishment.
Many factors contribute to these trends, but, as I have previously argued, a key one is the dramatic change in our information environment brought about by the rise of social media, the FT's John Burn-Murdoch explains.
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