Social media adoption timing predicted which authors defected to the right

Evidence

“Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences,” Gore Vidal said back in 1981. Wolf took to audiences, in a way that would have been unimaginable to Vidal, whose heyday predated social media. Wolf grasped the magnitude of the shift to the attention economy earlier than most authors of her generation. She joined Facebook in 2008 and fully embraced its self-publishing potentials, sending long, unedited, frequently fact-free theories into the world and then, when the technology became available, live videos. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 335

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s tracking of Klein’s method — cause here is structural (platform logic), not psychological.