A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power

www.theguardian.com A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole Cadwalladr

The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

Russiagate derangement lumbers on:

We’ve spent those eight years learning a new lexicon: “misinformation”, “disinformation”, “microtargeting”. We’ve learned about information warfare. As journalists, we, like FBI investigators, used evidence to show how social media was a vulnerable “threat surface” that bad actors such as Cambridge Analytica and the Kremlin could exploit.

God forbid people should understand the propaganda regime they’ve lived under their entire lives.