From the Arab Spring uprisings to the continuing electoral positive aspects of the novel proper and left to the rise of anti-science sentiment, the previous 15 years have been characterised by waves of populism, polarisation and an erosion of belief in consultants, experience and the institution.
Many elements contribute to those tendencies, however, as I’ve beforehand argued, a key one is the dramatic change in our info atmosphere led to by the rise of social media, the FT’s John Burn-Murdoch explains.
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