Your Favorite Influencers Are Ruining Political Discourse

They’re not experts, they’re entertainers—and their shallow, viral takes are dragging us further from the solutions we desperately need.

In the current age of social media dominance, it’s worth pausing to ask yourself: Why do you follow the influencers you do? This question isn’t about what they say or how they frame their ideas but about the underlying mechanics of why they have your attention in the first place. In a landscape where algorithms dictate visibility and virality defines in…