By Nafeez Ahmed (Approx. 30 minute read) – Editorial assistance by Andrew Markell and Gunther Sonnenfeld: What
do NATO, private military contractors, giant arms manufacturers, wine
merchants, the NSA, Trump, British property tycoons, Russian oligarchs,
and Big Oil have in common? The world’s largest social network.
Imagine a world
in which everybody gave away their freedom, willingly, in return for
being able to belong to a toxic network which, rather than enriching
their lives, profited from eroding civil discourse, polarising
communities, and manipulating their minds.
Wouldn’t you wonder
what was wrong with these people? You would. And yet that is the world
you are about to inhabit, right now. Unless you do something about it.
