The Crisis of Social Media Isn’t Solely About the Ideology of Silicon Valley’s Broligarchs

Cory Doctorow

Many of us found incredible intimacy, friendship, support, love, camaraderie, and political activation through online conversations. Social media, at its best, has been extraordinarily good at connecting people – and I don’t want to lose sight of that because I think there’s a reactionary account of social media that says it just drives us apart intrinsically, and I don’t think that’s true.

The likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have very bad ideas. But it’s a mistake to locate the crisis of social media solely in the ideology of Silicon Valley billionaires.

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