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Rob Rinder

Rob Rinder: shouty voices on Twitter are holding far too much sway

Anyone who knows me is aware that, every so often, I’ll sit down and spend a dozen happy hours (or so) browsing Twitter. I’ve lost many a mindless Sunday afternoon wandering down meme holes and scaling Mount Hashtag. But recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how it feels like a small number of shouty voices on Twitter’s endless stream are starting to impact us all… and not in a good way.

The other day Richard Madeley was on Good Morning Britain interviewing Alessia Russo, one of our magnificent Lionesses (double Damehoods for them all, by the way, and a week of Bank Holidays to boot).

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