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Did Facebook, Google And Amazon Break Our Democracy?

NPR

Published June 15, 2017 at 1:20 PM EDT

In this file photo, a man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. (Jeff Chiu/AP)

Author Jonathan Taplin (@jonathantaplin) argues that internet companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon grew so quickly that they took over American culture and broke its democracy.

Taplin speaks with Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti about his new book “Move Fast And Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy.”