What Dylan Matthews thinks about social media

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Journalist who covered economics, tax policy and philanthropy at Vox from 2014 to 2025, and before that at the Washington Post; writes a personal Substack.

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1. 19 Jan 2026

   Our readingLLMs pull people's sense of reality closer together, the opposite of how social media fractures it into separate realities.

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   Their wordsMy provisional theory is that LLMs, as a consumer product, will push people's senses of reality closer together in a sort of mirror image of the way social media has fractured them.

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