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In 1988, Noam Chomsky's seminal work Manufacturing Consent was
published, revealing how mass corporate media in the modern capitalist
society functions as a powerful propaganda service on behalf of the
wealthy and powerful.

In the 33 years, since the propaganda tools of Big Tech and the
corporate media have become so much more powerful and concentrated that
Chomsky's original edition seems almost quaint by comparison.

When Chomsky was researching his book, federal laws limited corporate
media concentration, with thousands of local newspapers and radio
stations all over the country. Today, those local newspapers and radio
stations are long gone or gutted, and the national media elites have
been joined by an even smaller group of Big Tech giants.

The old media elites were limited to broadcasting a single national
message. Today's digital media giants use sophisticated, secret
algorithms and massive amounts of personal data on each of us to control
what we see, read, and think.

These big tech monopolists control a growing majority of the web traffic
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