Nah, there’s plenty of meat without fabrication.
If someone is checking my posting history they are going to have a deep sigh over yet another of my “I heard this on the Pivot podcast” recaps, but Scott Galloway’s quick and dirty analysis on the 2024 POTUS loss is that a lot of parents were seeing the impact of social media on the lives of their children and that heavily weighed into a vote for change.
His quote was something to the effect of “social scientists 50 years from now are going to be shocked that we built software that so consistently delivers depression, increases the suicide rate of those who use it, allows rampant lies to be spread unchecked, including by automated bots and foreign actors who we know are antagonistic towards US interests, and the only, small effort to decency and good sense comes at the whim of billionaires who have no inner compass beyond profit.”
Honestly, the beauty of 2025-2026 is you don’t have to make it about GM, or DuPont, PG&E, etc., these large corporations with boards and cogs and CEO’s in the shadows. You can make it about Zuck, and Elon, and two of the most punchable faces in America.