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Social Media States - NOEMA

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Social media companies, which yield state-like power, have a lot to learn from early modern company-states like the East India Company.

Eleanor Shakespeare for Noema Magazine Credits Brendan Mackie received his PhD in history from UC Berkeley this May. He writes about the history of organizations, technology and parenting. Over the past year, it felt like almost every public question was transformed into a social media question. The Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 quickly led to a debate about whether Trump’s tweet “ When the looting starts, the shooting starts ” was an incitement to violence. Discussions about the proper response to the COVID-19 pandemic bled into meta-discussion about whether social media p

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