The Rise of Big Tech and Social Media

The rise of big tech and social media presents a series of difficult, perhaps intractable, problems for western societies. Our internet behemouths are effectively immense media companies pretending to be neutral platforms,. feasting on the revenue that once sustained the old media ecosystem while dis ing normal forms of editorial responsibility. Their key products are agents of decentralized suspicion, generating information overload and feeding both populous paranoia and centrist hysteria. Meanwhile, their leaders run transnational pseudo governments, exerting traditional political powers, cultural censorship, political banishment or what he says is typically traditional political powers without clear lines of accountability.