It might be
The Largest Autocracy on Earth
Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; its time we treated it that way.
By Adrienne LaFrance
The Atlantic, SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
In 1947, Albert Einstein, writing in this magazine, proposed the creation of a single world government to protect humanity from the threat of the atomic bomb. His utopian idea did not take hold, quite obviously, but today, another visionary is building the simulacrum of a cosmocracy.
Mark Zuckerberg, unlike Einstein, did not dream up Facebook out of a sense of moral duty, or a zeal for world peace. This summer, the population of Zuckerbergs supranational regime reached 2.9 billion monthly active users, more humans than live in the worlds two most populous nationsChina and Indiacombined.
To Zuckerberg, Facebooks founder and CEO, they are citizens of Facebookland. Long ago he conspicuously started calling them people instead of users, but they are still cogs in an immense social matrix, fleshy morsels of data to satisfy the advertisers that poured $54 billion into Facebook in the first half of 2021 alonea sum that surpasses the gross domestic products of most nations on Earth.
GDP makes for a telling comparison, not just because it gestures at Facebooks extraordinary power, but because it helps us see Facebook for what it really is. Facebook is not merely a website, or a platform, or a publisher, or a social network, or an online directory, or a corporation, or a utility. It is all of these things. But Facebook is also, effectively, a hostile foreign power.
This is plain to see in its single-minded focus on its own expansion; its immunity to any sense of civic obligation; its record of facilitating the undermining of elections; its antipathy toward the free press; its rulers callousness and hubris; and its indifference to the endurance of American democracy.
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Orwell had the world ruled by three huge political blocks. He had no idea the money would be so good that a
business could become the globes ruler.