Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer journalist who broke the
Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is a sicker place for itJohn Naughton on how
Facebook could stop Biden’s progress to the White HouseQ&A with Facebook whistleblower Yaël EisenstatQ&A with early Facebook investor Roger McNameeIn 2016, we didn’t know. We were innocent. We still believed
Social Media connected us and that connections were good. That technology equalled progress. And progress equalled better.
Four years on, we know too much. And yet, it turns out, we understand nothing. We know social media is a bin
fire and that the world is burning. But it’s like the pandemic. We understand in outline how bad things could get. But we remain hopelessly human. Relentlessly optimistic. Of course, we believe there’ll be a vaccine. Because there has to be, doesn’t there?