Private Authoritarianism: How Facebook and Google Threaten Democracy

Major private platforms gained political power without democratic accountability. Algorithmic ranking, moderation policy, and opaque product decisions can shape public debate as forcefully as state media controls, making platform governance a political problem rather than only a technical or market issue.

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