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.
As opposed to the prior 30 years of "do a thou wilt" to silicon valley...
They’ve been an integral part of the military-industrial complex since the beginning. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/palo-alto-malcolm-harris-review/