The civilizing effect (touch wood) of lockdown on social media

At the risk of jinxing it, it seems like the virtual spaces our lives have migrated to in lockdown have become more humane.

Casual consumption indicates that New Zealand actor Sam Neill isn’t the only one using his Twitter feed as a pandemic palliative, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Photograph courtesy of Twitter/TwoPaddocks

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

November 18, 2020

For all the incalculable personal tragedy and economic disruption the COVID-19 pandemic has produced, there have been, if not entirely countervailing positives, at least unintended consequences of the rare, uplifting variety. One of them is that social media seems to have become less toxic in lockdo...

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