the gate keepers of old media kept us safe by drip feeding us outrage. Now we are drinking from the social media firehose, always on, always connected, constantly fatigued.

Choose your channel and pick your side, you’re either with us or against us. All those complex issues boil down to a binary yes or no, this is what defines who you are, are you good or evil?

Quite the heavy, negative manifesto for a piece about the negative undertone of common words.

I don't quite know how word frequency necessary has anything to do with trust (or lack thereof), but.. Interesting to see that "milkshake duck" made the 2017 list.