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I wrote up one simple thing Joe Biden can do to reset America. He should restore the FTC, which is the agency tasked with regulating social media, by appointing a real enforcer - Rohit Chopra - as Chair. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-simple-thing-biden-can-do-to-reset
I went over the life of Ashli Babbitt, the woman killed in the Capitol, and her experiences with war, monopolies and financial predators. Rage has roots. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-simple-thing-biden-can-do-to-reset
Babbitt was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and served abroad for a total of eight deployments. She returned and revealed violent tendencies. She bought a small business adjacent to a monopoly, and then was preyed on by loan sharks. Then she went QAnon. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-simple-thing-biden-can-do-to-reset
Social media is fundamentally an addictive business model that needs to be restructured by new rules and laws. But addiction doesn't take place in a vacuum, and there's a reason QAnon flourishes at a moment of profound alienation, suicides, and drug abuse. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-simple-thing-biden-can-do-to-reset
The QAnon phenomenon is, among other things, extremely sad.
It's hard not to look back and see the FTC Facebook-Cambridge Analytica settlement - and the previous decade of policy misjudgments - as tragic missed opportunities wherein the FTC could have ended social media's toxic business model that led to the riots. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-simple-thing-biden-can-do-to-reset
