Remember when social media was hailed as the great democratizing force? @pescagist
Remember when social media was hailed as the great democratizing force? @pescagist
Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Alicia Wanless says the real failure wasn’t in the tech—it was in us. Democracies never adapted, assuming the “revolution” would only happen elsewhere. And when things went wrong, we acted shocked that people would use technology for bad as well as good.

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Remember when social media was hailed as the great democratizing force?

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