It's not enough to break up Big Tech. We need to imagine a better alternative | Evgeny Morozov

Presenting tech companies as America's greatest menace may appeal to voters, but it does little to chart an alternative future

As Facebook all but pleads guilty to a severe form of data addiction, confessing its digital sins and promising to reinvent itself as a privacy-worshiping denizen of the global village, the foundations of Big Tech's cultural hegemony appear to be crumbling. Most surprisingly, it's in the United States, Silicon Valley's home territory, where they seem to be the weakest.

Even in these times of extreme polarization, Trump, who has habitual outbursts against censorship by social media platforms, eagerly joins left-wing politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in presenting Big Tech as America's greatest menace The recent call by Chris Hughes, Facebook's co-founder, to break up the firm hints at things to come.