Nolan"Why Have We Soured on the 'Devil’s Advocate'?" by Nitsuh Abebe https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/magazine/why-have-we-soured-on-the-devils-advocate.html
This is a good piece on why it's so hard to have reasoned debates online.
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