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Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage
The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace.
No longer confined to the Emerald City of the Baghdad Green Zone, imperial life has come back to haunt the capital, the lawlessness of the post-9/11 Bush era returned in an even more grotesque, exaggerated fashion as the governing philosophy of that administration’s Republican successors. Musk, who in return for financing Trump’s campaign with hundreds of millions of dollars has been rewarded with unprecedented influence in the administration, has said that he wants to impose “some temporary hardship” on Americans by cutting federal spending to “ensure long-term prosperity.” The purpose of this cage is to make companies a profit, but we are now entering an era when the government is pressuring them to keep Americans docile, obedient, controlled, and, in some cases, hopeless, “spinning on an endless hamster wheel of reactive anger,” as the journalist Janus Rose put it.
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