How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny The New Atlantis
How did we get here, from Facebook s mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together ? Riot-inducing fake news and election meddling are obviously far from what its founders intended for the platform. Likewise, Google s founders surely did not build their search engine with the intention of its being censored in China to suppress free speech, and yet, after years of refusing this demand from Chinese leadership, Google has recently relented rather than pull their search engine from China entirely. And YouTube s creators surely did not intend their feature that promotes trending content to help clickbait conspiracy-theory videos go viral.