If Facebook is not terrifying, you have not been paying attention

Facebook and the US are now indivisible and the world is a sicker place for it, says the British journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal By Carole Cadwalladr / The Observer In 2016, we did not know. We were innocent. We still believed social media connected us and that connections were good. That technology equaled progress, and progress equaled better. Four years on, we know too much, and yet, it turns out, we understand nothing. We know social media is a bin fire and that the world is burning, but it is like the COVID-19 pandemic. We understand in outline how bad things could get, but we remain hopelessly human. Relentlessly optimistic. Of course, we believe there will be a...