This might be more similar to the last point, but I don’t buy in general the argument that small numbers of individual people who have worse ideas will have an easier time influencing people because of social media, or something like that.
I think the key mechanism behind bad ideas being more influential than good ideas is that we tend to have a bias to over update on negative news, and social media, as well as the news enables our biased opinions to be shared towards the world, which is almost never the good opinion.
I think the key mechanism behind bad ideas being more influential than good ideas is that we tend to have a bias to over update on negative news, and social media, as well as the news enables our biased opinions to be shared towards the world, which is almost never the good opinion.