Silicon Valley was once considered a liberal force, but its reactionary roots go way back.

The idea that technology can bring us into the future by restoring an older social order through these powerful men.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Lowinger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Also on the show,

a conversation with the CEO of Blue Sky on how to billionaire proof the internet.

Well, Zuckerberg is built a digital empire. It's one man at the top of it. And I want people to

realize that we can take that back. We can build our own digital spaces.

Plus, for every parenting question, there's an app that says it has the answer.

I was trained to see myself as somebody who needed to be surveilled,

that my pregnancy needed to be surveilled in order for me to do it correctly.

It's all coming up after this.

This is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Loinger. It's been a big year for group chats.

There was that accidentally leaked signal thread featuring the Atlantic's Jeffrey

Goldberg. Jeffrey Goldberg says he was included in a group chat full of our nation's top security

officials as they were texting back and forth about highly sensitive war plans. You know,

back in my day, if you were a journalist, wanted leaked war documents, he

had to work the sources, meet him in a dark garage, earn the trust. Now, just wait for the

National Security Advisor to be distracted by White Lotus while he's setting up his bomb yemen.

Group chat. In April, semaphores Ben Smith wrote about the network of private chats, where

some of America's most powerful personalities

coordinate and debate. There's the Signal Group featuring famous podcasters, another for

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