Apr 22

11 min read

Don’t believe Obama’s Big Tech criti-hype

They’re not evil geniuses (they’re not geniuses, period).

An animated Shira Inbar illustration from the Onezero edition of ‘How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism,’ depicting a cluster of floating eyeballs amid a receding cyberspace grid; they blink in unison, revealing that their pupils have dollar-signs in them. Image: Shira Inbar https://shira-inbar.com/ Onezero https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

Obama’s Stanford University speech this Thursday (correctly) raised the alarm about conspiratorial thinking, and (correctly) identified that Big Tech was at the center of that rise — and then (wildly incorrectly) blamed “the algorithm” for it.

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