（题目源于网络）
In my estimation, social media influencers exert a nothing but pathological impact on their followers. I take Paul’s point that influencers sometimes distort users’ sense of what is valuable and facilitate irrational purchasing decisions. But psychological manipulation of fashion isn’t nearly their most egregious error. It is on the political front that social media influencers are most at fault—they are guilty, among other sins, of ideological oversimplification and politicization of culture. I think of Twitter in particular, where cheap hashtags and virtue-signaling behavior have reduced discourse to episodes of moral panic and manufactured outrage. Consider JK Rowling: for pointing out the plain absurdity of avoiding the term “woman” in everyday parlance, the Twitter mob devoured her with ideological buzzwords and vile threats. Post-George Floyd, the term “influencer” has become synonymous with “activist” and, by extension, the cancel culture that is part and parcel of today’s media and academia. Of course, (pre-Musk) Twitter and Facebook, leaning but hard left, shouldn’t get away scot-free; it is they who enabled the phenomenon of trial by social media and, through their demented algorithms, coated influencers' narcissism and pathology with the veneer of respectability. Our dependence on social media communication—now more performative than private—may yet doom us, with influencers at the heart of it all.
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如果7月26早上的consumer choice题目只是独立写作的原题改写，下午这道social media influencer就是学术讨论中的绝对新题➕难题
遗憾的是，10分钟内不易深入展开话题讨论
disclaimer: 以上文段结构，论述方式，和语言使用，都是我freestyle写出，虽是绝对的满分（30 out of 30），但不宜复制和教给学生，我更不会这样教，请有意剽窃的同行知晓
超纲的词汇和表达：nothing but, egregious, on the political front, reduce, moral panic, everyday parlance, part and parcel, scot-free, trial by social media, narcissism and pathology, veneer
涉及的概念和人物：virtue signal, ideological buzzwords, cancel culture, JK Rowling's "trans" tweets, pre-Musk Twitter, George Floyd incident, lean hard left, demented algorithms
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