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Trends 2020: The screw turns tighter on social media
As calls mount in the US and UK to bring the power of the social media giants under control through regulation, the independent future of ‘Big Tech’ hangs in the balance.
We may be nearly two years on from Cambridge Analytica, but the data-harvesting scandal continues to cast a long shadow over social media within the public consciousness.
Pressure is mounting on the social giants as scrutiny intensifies over the amount of power and influence they wield in today’s society. Speaking in May, Facebook co-founder, Chris Hughes, described the platform’s concentration of wealth, power and influence as “unprecedented and un-American”.
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