Sam Harnett’s 2020 “Words Matter: How Tech Media Helped Write Gig Companies Into Existence” remains “one of the best accounts of how swaths of the media enthusiastically generated on-demand propaganda for the tech industry, directly setting the stage for these firms to exploit, codify, and expand legal loopholes that largely exempted them from regulation as they raided their users for data and generated billions in revenue.”
https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso
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