alt Hacker NewsSocial media and tech companies are effectively helping external actors (and malicious internal actors) to break western democracy.
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amelius • 01/04/2026
Yes, that is the final observation needed in the proof that open societies are more brittle than those led by dictators.
Quite - that's been patently obvious since the Cambridge Analytica scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
Ultimately, there's a war between the haves and the have-nots and one side clearly has more resources.