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