A handful of Silicon Valley executives have exerted an almost inconceivable ­degree of influence over our culture, our identities and our psychology. They have little concern for us – by which, I mean, the average user. And still we dutifully spend great chunks of our limited time on Earth scrolling and clicking and offering up our digital lives to be repackaged and sold, ­without ever fully understanding how or why we got here.

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/07/how-instagram-transformed-our-personal-lives