Not addressing the political and institutional failures of existing/traditional power structures won’t work. The digital transition would look very different in different moments. We get the one we did because of where we are politically and economically.
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And while I focus on it because it’s my beat, acting like the 2016 election in the US and Brexit were solely about Facebook or Cambridge Analytica won’t help either. Here’s my piece from March 2016 when people thought Trump was a fleeting flash-in-the pan. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/opinion/campaign-stops/adventures-in-the-trump-twittersphere.html …pic.twitter.com/IbKd8QDttf
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Also. This stuff is *mundane* for all modern campaigns. The real story is that Trump campaign was so dis/underorganized that they mostly turned things over to Facebook which skillfully guided them through it all—for a fee, as they do to all their clients. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/23/leaked-cambridge-analyticas-blueprint-for-trump-victory …
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