conversations. In normal times you have lots of interactions with other people who have lots of different perspectives. Over the water cooler he might say hey I heard this weird thing - The other person would say yeah that sounds insane can’t be true.

Now there are many fewer of those interactions. Your online here somewhere conspiracy theory. Of course if you look up that weird conspiracy theory go fund 50 other people in the world who believe it. Then you start to talk about it online and you were tracked the other people who are prone to believing that insane conspiracy. Fewer every day conversations with other every day people and people prone to one conspiracy or another are attracted to each other.

Essentially we are losing a lot of the check of the “yeah that sounds insane response” from a work colleague or neighbor at the grocery store or a friend over coffee.