Trump was also great advertising for Twitter, just like he was great for the news media. I'd argue that Big Media, Inc. is deeply complicit in the rise of Dona

Trump was also great advertising for Twitter, just like he was great for the news media. I'd argue that Big Media, Inc. is deeply complicit in the rise of Donald Trump. He was the goose that laid the golden egg. Additionally, the media mergers of the 80s and 90s gave us right-wing talk radio on the AM band, sewing the spores of hate from which the vile toadstool of Trumpism bloomed. Big Tech, Inc., with its algorithms that promote radical right-wing content, also seems suspect. To me the solution to all of these problems is to break up conglomerates and monopolies. Let's have more decentralization and more "small is beautiful" tech, like the chat system presented here. Let a million flowers blossom, smothering the aforementioned toadstool. (Wandering off to look at installing Cabal).