There Is No Bipartisan Consensus on Big Tech

Photo-Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images. Opinion article by Justin Sherman. Wired – October 13, 2021.

The media’s rose-colored rhetoric about cooperation across the aisle is overblown—and threatens the road to substantive regulation.

Finally, we’ve reached bipartisan consensus on Big Tech, yay everyone! At least that’s the line the press is echoing ad nauseum. “Facebook Whistleblower Reignites Bipartisan Support for Curbing Big Tech,” the Financial Times trumpeted last week after Frances Haugen’s Senate testimony on Facebook. […]

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