I’m in for the Elon Musk revolution.
After 2016’s twin political shocks of Brexit and Donald Trump, the message went out that social media had to come under the political control of — well, whatever you want to call it: the Blob, the center-left, the Apparatus, the managerial class. A giant moral panic was worked up over “disinformation,” and Silicon Valley used its cash to buy off its critics — often employing them in expanded departments dedicated to “safety” and “disinformation.” The private sector responded by immediately crowning “disinformation experts” and “online safety advocates” on the outside.
I hope he follows through.
