https://www.scmp.com/rss/322043/feed Francis Fukuyama is a senior fellow at Stanford University and co-director of its programme on democracy and the internet. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In October, a confrontation erupted between one of the leading Democratic candidates for the US presidency, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Warren had called for a break-up of Facebook, and Zuckerberg said in an internal speech that this represented an “existential” threat to his company. Facebook was then criticised for running an ad by US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that carried a false claim charging former vice-president Joe Biden, another... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3043250/should-facebook-and-google-be-broken-save-democracy-us-presidential?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3043250/should-facebook-and-google-be-broken-save-democracy-us-presidential?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Dec 2019 19:00:09 +0000 One of the more striking developments of 2016 and its highly unusual politics was the emergence of a “post-fact” world, in which virtually all authoritative information sources were called into question and challenged by contrary facts of dubious quality and provenance. The emergence of the internet and the World Wide Web in the 1990s was greeted as a moment of liberation and a great boon for democracy worldwide. Information constitutes a form of power, and to the extent that information was... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2056545/brexit-us-election-2016-saw-march-towards-universal-distrust?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2056545/brexit-us-election-2016-saw-march-towards-universal-distrust?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Dec 2016 01:31:20 +0000 As 2016 begins, a historic contest is under way over competing development models – that is, strategies to promote economic growth – between China, on the one hand, and the US and other Western countries on the other. Although this contest has been largely hidden from public view, the outcome will determine the fate of much of Eurasia for decades to come. Most Westerners are aware that growth has slowed substantially in China, from over 10 per cent per year in recent decades to below 7 per cent... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1901128/chinas-road-or-western-way-whose-economic-development-model?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1901128/chinas-road-or-western-way-whose-economic-development-model?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:36:59 +0000