How liberals lost the internet | Robert Topinka

In the first part of our series on digital politics, we look at how centrists have lost ground fighting disinformation – when the real battle is over emotion and attentionRobert Topinka is a reader in digital media and rhetoric at Birkbeck, University of LondonThere’s a strange tendency to describe social media as something other people use – those young people on TikTok, that conspiratorial uncle on Facebook, the rightwing trolls on X. In truth, we’re all online now. The