TECH & SOCIETY

“Social media: the biggest threat to democracy”

The like button. The one-click share. The infinite scroll. The algorithmic feed.

Revolutionary updates that fundamentally and forever altered the internet economy — and our behaviour.

Tobias Rose-Stockwell, author of The Outrage Machine, unpacks the moment when the internet became a dangerous place, why social media is a threat to democracy, how to fix it, and the role of Big Tech.

Watch this eye-opening conversation between an investigator of the internet, and Shoma Chaudhury, Director-Curator of SYNAPSE and Founder of Lucid Lines.