Thread by @shoshanazuboff

Friends, I’m so glad to share this new piece. A glimpse into my new work as we roll up our sleeves for #TheThirdDecade. It’s OUR TURN to shape the rights, laws, institutions, that allow democracy to flourish in our digital century.

"The intolerable truth is that we have ceded the ownership and operation of the digital to the political economics of private surveillance capital, which vies with democracy over the fundamental rights and principles that define our social order.”

The four stages of #SurveillanceCapitalism’s epistemic coup: 1) loss of epistemic rights, 2) sharp rise in epistemic inequality, 3) spread of #EpistemicChaos, 4) epistemic dominance.

#antisocialmedia's rulers defend their chaos machines with a twisted rendition of the 1st Amendment. But this is not a public square, it’s a private square governed by surveillance capitalism’s machine operations, a rigged game. The house wins. No democracy can survive this game.

In October 2020 the National Center for Disaster Preparedness estimated at least 130,000 of the then 217,000 U.S. deaths were avoidable. Of 4 reasons cited, each unwinds from #EpistemicChaos. This is not a drill: epistemic chaos kills.

Thanks for all your wonderful notes. Read, tweet, share, lead, and above all, think. Reach out to your lawmakers and tell them, we demand change NOW.
Thank you to my colleagues @nytimesopinion, @FBoversight @tribelaw @Moonalice @carolecadwalla
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