Answer:

Introduction

Your Thesis (Main Point):

Micheal Coren concludes:

"Insult has become the new manner of social-media conversation, and thought and reason are seen as weakness" (2019).

Body:

Add evidence by referring to some of the examples Coren provides. For example, refer to the section on President Trump.

Even the president, Donald Trump, uses Twitter as a "press office." It is a platform for his supporters and critics to insult each other:

The fun is far from over for the trolls. That hatred has, in fact, expanded enormously since the political rise of Donald Trump, who uses Twitter as both a cudgel and press office. Whatever one thinks of the president of the United States, his tweets matter and people want and need to read them. He now has almost 41 million followers on his personal account and 21 million on his official presidential Twitter page. That's an enormous segment of society that he can reach whenever he picks up his smart phone....His supporters are obsessive and brutal; his opponents equally so. Just recently, for example, Trump went to Twitter to defend the way he spoke to the widow of an American soldier killed in Niger and to deny that he had been dismissive and rude, as has been reported in mainstream media. He tweeted that these were "lies." His critics, in return, tweeted that he was "a modern-day Hitler" and a "mass murderer." Thus the storm began. Millions of people read the diatribes and then hundreds of thousands of people screamed at each other. Twitter, once again, became the platform for the most powerful person in the world to insult his enemies and, in turn, be insulted. That symbiotic circle of venom is the platform's big draw (Coren 2019).

Transition to:

Twitter is a forum for all sorts of marginalized groups to express their anger and insult other groups. Coren writes:

Because of its largely uncontrolled nature, Twitter has become the most mainstream forum for those denied a media outlet. In other words, all varieties of fanatics, conspiracy theorists, and eccentrics. The platform is soaked in Holocaust denial, fringe politics, anti-Semitism, and racism. People usually ignored or unable to be published in respected newspapers and magazines establish major fan bases. Much of the former success of Ezra Levant's far-right news organization, the Rebel, was based on precisely this kind of support. And there's a lot of it to harvest. A study released in February by Safe Home, an organization of home-security experts, showed that Twitter accounts run by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim organizations have boomed over the past three years. The study also found that tweets and comments by hate groups collected more "likes" in 2016 than in any other year..... (Coren 2019)

Conclusion

Add your own conclusion. Some questions to stimulate your thinking:

What do you think about Twitter?

Do you agree or disagree with Coren?

Why? Why Not?

Can you think of other social media examples?

REFERENCES:

Coren, M. (Oct.25, 2017 updated Nov 27,2019). Nov. 27, 2019."Why Twitter Wants You to Hate." The Walrus (2020) Web. https://thewalrus.ca/why-twitter-wants-you-to-hate/