![]() Why not just let all the bots trying to undermine our elections and spreading false information about the coronavirus and right-wing conspiracy theories and smear campaigns run amok? Sure, we’re weakening our society, but the weird, infantile maniacs running Silicon Valley must be allowed to rake in more billions and finish their mission of creating a giant cyberorganism of people, one huge and lucrative ball of rage. If left unchecked,” Facebook would feed users “more and more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention & increase time on the platform.” The Wall Street Journal had a chilling report a few days ago that Facebook’s own research in 2018 revealed that “our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness. Trump and Twitter were a match made in hell. It is amazing that a septuagenarian became the greatest exploiter of social media. Trump constantly torques up the tribal friction and cruelty, even as Twitter and Facebook refine their systems to ratchet up rage. How can that happen when the whole culture has been re-engineered to put us at each other’s throats? I wish I could go along with those who say this dark period of American life will ultimately make us nicer and simpler and more contemplative. In Minneapolis, the barbaric death of George Floyd after a police officer knelt on him for almost nine minutes showed yet again that black Americans have everything to fear from some who are charged with protecting them.Īs if that weren’t enough, from the slough of our despond, we have to watch Donald Trump duke it out with the lords of the cloud in a contest to see who can destroy our democracy faster. ![]() On Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, the fat cats who carved up the country, drained us dry and left us with no safety net profiteered off the virus. In Washington, the Trump administration’s deception about the virus was lethal. We have every reason to believe they’re gunning for us. ![]() We can’t trust the powerful forces in this nation to tell us the truth or do the right thing. ![]() Our country is going through biological, economic and societal convulsions. ![]()
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