“Social media is a nuance destruction machine…”

— Jeff Bezos, in testimony at an antitrust hearing of the US House Committee on the Judiciary, 29 July 2020. Via Geekwire

The full quote, in response to a question about so-called “cancel culture”, was, “What I find a little discouraging is that it appears to me that social media is a nuance destruction machine, and I don’t think that’s helpful for a democracy.”