The Mob, 1935, by Carl Hoeckner1. IntroductionThe philosopher Dan Williams recently published two pieces on social media— “Scapegoating the Algorithm” at Asterisk Magazine, and “The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think” at his Substack. As their titles attest to, both argue that the case against social media, on epistemic and political grounds, has been considerably overstated.I recently published a lengthy essay arguing the opposite: that the case against social media has, if anyt...