"Jaron Lanier had it right when he said that social media was biased, 'not to the Left or the Right, but downward.' [...] Legacy media, desperate for attention, has been producing increasingly negative content because that's what gets clicked on. Social media users, presented with this darker view of the world, share it more readily, which in turn encourages legacy media to produce even more of it. The result is a kind of perpetual motion machine of pessimism."