Here’s another booklet-length article, “What Facebook Did to
American Democracy” (“and why it was so hard to see it coming”) by Alexis C.
Madrigal.
Facebook simply curated the personalized news streams with
its algorithms to what people “wanted” to see.
I don’t blame Mark Zuckerberg (even if Mark is an extraterrestrial alien,
or is slightly “autistic” like me) for that.
I think there is simply too great a cultural schism between the
“elites” and the “average Joe’s” (the “Trader Joe” mentality). There was a
tendency for people to organize themselves loosely out of resentment, without
any specifics as to how to fix real problems like health care (hint: do your
math first – and that requires elites).
The Russians took advantage of the fact that “elites” “like
me” wouldn’t even care what “average Joe’s” thought because we did not hold
them in high regard personally. The “elites”
don’t want to rule the world with an oligarchy, but someone like Donald Trump
or Putin will pretend he cares about “them” when we won’t even bother.
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