"Facebook is not just any corporation. It reached trillion-dollar status in a single decade by applying the logic of what I call surveillance capitalism — an economic system built on the secret extraction and manipulation of human data — to its vision of connecting the entire world. Facebook and other leading surveillance capitalist corporations now control information flows and communication infrastructures across the world."

So damn smart. Probably the most important perspective piece on digital media that I can recommend for 2021. Read, understand, share. Even gets at Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg role in it all, “Facebook as we now know it was fashioned from Google’s rib.”