Trump’s first term, when backlash from the 2016 campaign, Russian interference, and Cambridge Analytica forced Twitter & Facebook to start ‘fact checking;’ when republicans were on a tear about how ‘big tech’ was systematically censoring right-wing speech, they definitely had a ‘break up big tech’ agenda.
Now that Musk bought Twitter and showed us exactly what unfettered right wing propaganda can achieve, now that Zuckerberg has bent the knee and TikTok all but banned, I think all that anti-trust mumbo jumbo will be moving to a back burner.
Trump’s first term, when backlash from the 2016 campaign, Russian interference, and Cambridge Analytica forced Twitter & Facebook to start ‘fact checking;’ when republicans were on a tear about how ‘big tech’ was systematically censoring right-wing speech, they definitely had a ‘break up big tech’ agenda.
Now that Musk bought Twitter and showed us exactly what unfettered right wing propaganda can achieve, now that Zuckerberg has bent the knee and TikTok all but banned, I think all that anti-trust mumbo jumbo will be moving to a back burner.