The Misinformation Industrial Complex

Social Media is killing people.

Once upon a century, the internet was meant to set us free. The early prophets of the digital age promised an electric democracy. In this space, ideas could travel at the speed of light, bypassing the traditional media gatekeepers and bringing truth closer to the people. The dream was utopian: liberation by bandwidth. What we got was closer to libertarianism by bandwidth.

That dream died sometime around the first retweet.

Today, social media hums like an enormous mechanical cathedral built from glass and nefarious code, a temple to engagement where each bright pane glows with human vanity. We pray at our screens, whispering hopes and hatreds into a machine that listens only for profit. What once looked like the public square now resembles a stock exchange for human attention, a colosseum of the deranged where rage and fear are the currencies that circulate fastest. What they built was a panic engine, a labyrinth of mirrors where the only thing reflected back at you is your own twitchi…