We All Fell for Facebook’s Utopianism, but the Mask Is at Last Being Torn Away

December 10, 2018

Published in The Guardian
(U.K.) on 9 December 2018
by Jamie Bartlett (link to original link to original)

Translated from by . Edited by .

This post appeared on the front page as a direct link to the original article with the above link .

Hot this week

Block title

Mexico: The Military, Migrants and More

June 24, 2025. Published in El Heraldo de México

India: What if Trump Has Just Started Another ‘Forever War’?

June 23, 2025. Published in NDTV

India: US, Israel and the Age of Moral Paralysis

June 24, 2025. Published in The Indian Express

Australia: NATO Aims To Flatter, but Trump Remains Unpredictable

June 24, 2025. Published in ABC News Australia

Germany: Can Donald Trump Be Convinced To Remain Engaged in Europe?

June 24, 2025. Published in Der Spiegel

Topics

Poland: Calm in Iran Doesn’t Mean Peace Yet

June 28, 2025. Published in Rzeczpospolita

[Iran] may be tempted to return in secret to its halted nuclear program.

China: Trump’s ‘Opportunism First’ — Attacking Iran Opens Pandora’s Box

June 28, 2025. Published in Ming Pao

Withdrawal from the nuclear agreement makes the world more dangerous; Obama’s prediction is coming true.

Australia: What US Intelligence and Leaks Tell Us about ‘Operation Midnight Hammer’

June 27, 2025. Published in ABC News Australia

Australia: Tech Billionaires To Reap the Rewards of Trump’s Strongarm Tax Tactics

June 27, 2025. Published in ABC News Australia

Austria: Would-Be King Trump Doesn’t Have His House in Order

June 27, 2025. Published in Der Standard

The 79-year-old would love to be a president of peace. But conflicts are escalating globally[.]

Argentina: Middle East: From Nuclear Agreement to Preventive Attack, Who’s in Control?

June 27, 2025. Published in Clarín

When war is separated from rational political aims, it is no longer an instrument for achieving those aims in its own right.

Canada: Trump Did What Had To Be Done

June 25, 2025. Published in Toronto Sun

Australia: Donald Trump Dominated Extraordinary NATO Summit that Saw European Defense Spending Increased

June 25, 2025. Published in ABC News Australia

Austria: Maybe Trump’s Tariff Bludgeon Was Good for Something after All

May 20, 2025. Published in Die Presse

U.K.: The Guardian View on the IMF’s Warning: Donald Trump Could Cost the World a Trillion Dollars

April 22, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The U.S. president’s economic agenda collides with fragile financial systems, triggering market fears, investor flight and developing nation chaos.

Austria: The Dismantling of Meta Is the Only Weapon against Its Dangerous Concentration of Power

April 20, 2025. Published in Der Standard

How much power should a company be allowed to have in the digital space?

U.K.: The Guardian View on Donald Trump’s Industrial Policy: Inward Turn by Ultimatum

April 17, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The U.S. is retreating behind chokepoints and tariffs. It remains determined to invent the future but is struggling to ensure its control.

U.K.: The Guardian View on the US Immigration Crackdown: What Began with Foreign Nationals Won’t End There

April 9, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The Trump administration is deliberately fomenting fear through the deportations and arrests.

The World George H. W. Bush Made

Spare Me America’s Tears for Jamal Khashoggi – This Excuse for Trump-Bashing Ignores the CIA’s Past Crimes