Zedd argues the internet promised connection but delivered isolation. Algorithms curate each person's reality differently, so we encounter opposing information streams and dismiss disagreement as lies. Truth becomes impossible to discern when everyone lives in a separate version of what's real.
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The greatest thing about the internet compared to not having the internet was that we felt internationally connected. Yet I feel like we've never been more separated. And I don't mean this just like because there's distancing, but I feel like our internet is different per person. Your internet, your view of the world is so different from mine because everybody gets shown something else. That's why there's so much division too, is because everybody sees their own version of reality. And how often do you see, like, it's so obvious, like you just believe all the lies and everybody says that about each other. It's like, well, maybe it's not that easy. Maybe it's pretty damn hard to figure out what's real and what's not because we all see different things.