Yo! Technology. What is it all about?

Everybody wants to do something. And both Democrats and Republicans believe that the tech platforms have grown too powerful. They decide what you see.

That is not something I disagree with. They are very powerful and they do decide what you see.

But that's where the common sense of the problem ends.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech. I'm your host,

Danny Forts in the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times, and I'm feeling good.

Two days away from having a week off for Thanksgiving. And the plan is to eat until I pass out.

And that is it.

That's the plan.

I can't wait.

But before I go, often do that, I wanted to answer a question, which is, how should we feel about social media in 2020?

Specifically, the job that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the rest are doing when it comes to stopping

or slowing disinformation, misinformation, misinformation, conspiracies, everything else.

And obviously we just had the election.

And it made me think back, of course, to 2016 and everything that went wrong there.

And now here we are.

We just had what appears to have been a free and fair election that was largely free of the

kind of big state-sponsored disinformation campaigns that swayed things one or way or the other, at least as far as we know right now.

But now we are being bombarded with all kinds of conspiracy theories anyway about the election, you know, potential fraud and all that stuff.

Of course, a lot of this is being driven by our president.

But there's perhaps no one better to give us a social media health check than this week's

guest who's Renee de Resta.

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