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Title: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Author: Whitney Phillips
Category: Culture & Society
Why does the internet feel like it's designed to make us angry? Sam and Sophie open the episode with that question, and Whitney Phillips' answer is the one that rearranged their brains.
They walk through the book's central claim that trolling isn't a psychological disorder but a…
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