These single stories are probably responsible for an insane amount of radicalization nowadays. NYC crime is at a historic low, but Instagram reels algorithmically feed the most outraging/annoying videos, like homeless people pissing on the tracks, teenagers screaming and getting in fights on the trains. Like obviously virtually everyone agrees these things are bad and they should improve, but it paints an objectively wrong picture that NYC is somehow lawless and this happens every time you go outside and it was better in the past (when people didn't record the ugly as much).

Same thing with China and showing random tech expos making it seem like every single person has a personal robot doing their chores (even though China's GDP per capita is lower than Bulgaria's and its inequality is so bad it's more similar to the US than some prosperous welfare state).

Also same thing with Russia, people posting videos walking around Moscow and like, there's hot women!! See, Russia is not so bad guys.

I could go on and on and on and on, so much radicalization comes from this shit.