
Bonus: Big Technology feat. Alex Kantrowitz with Tristan Harris
Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel
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Is QAnon a Platformer on Substack?
The film has gotten a lot of blowback into Silicon Valley. Some have said that it's replacing one conspiracy theory with another. The film doesn't say there's a group of 10 tech insiders who are deliberately and maliciously must ask twirling, you know, all the way home to the bank in bringing out the worst in society or trying to control the media. It doesn't say that at all. In fact, it says these platforms have a mind of their own and they've become a kind of digital Frankenstein that no one knows how it works but all we know is that it tends to reward the worst aspects in society.
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