How Trump’s ‘Reverse Algorithmic Capture’ Is Creating the Unseen Curators of Our New Digital Realities

The US Government is shaping by – by stealth – the emergence of a privatised information infrastructure that serves its ideological aims. Caroline Orr reports

For more than a decade, Twitter served as a virtual town square where everyone from celebrities, journalists, and influencers, to politicians, entertainers, and heads of state congregated alongside the rest of us.

It became like the public record – a place for news, information, argument, and dissent. It was real-time, fast-paced, and unparalleled in the world of social media.

But whatever happened to what SpaceX founder Elon Musk called the “world’s town hall” when he took it over, that open space no longer exists.

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