Saving Social: The Dysfunctional Past and Promising Future of Social Media

Social media is broken — or at least it appears that way. To many, the industry seems to have come undone, but what if, in fact, it’s just coming together?
As social media has become integrated into both business and mainstream culture, we’ve seen euphoric novelty give way to hysteria around the ill effects of misinformation, data privacy and polarizing echo chambers. Now, as everything from the ethics behind algorithms to the legal shield social networks use to protect themselves from lia...