The emphasis on medium is surprising to me though: neither big tech nor screens are inherently incompatible with articulate content. One major struggle is the ubiquity of low quality online material: sifting signal from noise in contemporary publications is increasingly difficult

Thanks for publishing this important article. It's worrying to note that no grand evil master is driving this, the tendency to illiteracy seems to spread organically like literacy did 3 centuries ago. Big tech and political actors supporting it thrive because we collectively prefer them to.