Social media has transformed the way we connect with each other — and has even driven some of us further apart. As the Internet grows more influential, it creates echo chambers, increases polarization and even facilitates extremism. Cass Sunstein argues that the online world encourages political and social fragmentation, and endangers the shared understandings that threaten democracy. 

Cass Sunstein is a best-selling author and a professor at Harvard Law School. In his new book, #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media, Sunstein argues that the Internet is creating new divisions in our society and offers practical solutions to make the Internet more friendly to our democratic system. He proposes we get out of our bubbles and follow new people, places, things and ideas that we would never have picked for our own feed.