Social media seems to be engineered to push people to extremes, and civil discourse seems almost impossible in many instances.

Facebook's original feed was kind of OK when it was just a chronological list of posts from your friends (though that still has some issues). But of course that doesn't make as much money as an algorithmic feed that pushes advertisements and outrage-driven "engagement".

Yellow journalism has been around forever, but now we have outrage media that is optimized for each person with an addictive feedback loop.

Somehow I don't think AI is going to improve the situation.