Dislike Buttons Could Balance Online Discourse and Save Democracy
The Benefits Far Outweigh the Risks
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8 min readJan 19, 2021
The “like” button was first implemented on Facebook in February of 2009 — less than a month since Obama took office and a hell of a time for its debut. At first, its reveal seemed like an innocent, long overdue time saver — an elegant design solution for the UX clunkiness that preceded. If you…