The Big Four tech giants control most of the world’s information flow, drug, and food supply. Google and Facebook manipulated the 2016 presidential election by prioritizing or burying content altogether. (click here) Throughout the history of human civilization, including periods of ecclesiastical rule, no entity has had as much power to influence and control the social and political ideals of billions of people with zero oversight or regulation as these tech giants. Democracy’s only hope is for Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter to be broken up and regulated. Will Elon Musk’s recent Twitter acquisition change any of this? We must wait and see, but I would not bet on it.
Illustration by Rachael Bolton.
In 1949, George Orwell wrote the book 1984, in which he accurately predicted the future with Francis Bacon’s phrase “knowledge is power.” This is true today more than ever. Organizations and unelected officials, such as Klaus Schwab’s WEF, use social media platforms as “crisis management “ societal control mechanisms.
For example – COVID was never about public health. It was all about politics, power, control, obedience, and putting big pharma profits ahead of people’s lives. An army of phony fact-checkers has been created to control speech under disinformation and misinformation. No legal definition exists for either misinformation or disinformation. As of 2022, The UK and US governments support and fund many unlawful mass censorship programs with our taxes. (click here)
