Cyrus Krohn was once an internet pioneer and an online optimist who spent years helping Republicans win political campaigns, but now he’s warning that the web must be tamed before it destroys democracy.
“Our digital world isn’t working,” Krohn writes in his recent book, “Bombarded: How to Fight Back Against the Online Assault on Democracy.”
“I walked into the internet naively in 1995, thinking that it was all altruistic and going to create a better society,” Krohn said in an interview on “But the Seattle native now is sounding the alarm about the web’s threat to a functioning country. “I entered digital life believing in the internet’s great potential as an equalizer ... I now believe the internet is one of the most disconcerting, damaging elements in our democratic process. ... [It] heartens fringe actors — cranks, eccentrics, and extremists,” he writes.
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