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As of 2018, Google and Facebook controlled 60% of all digital advertising revenue, totaling over $60 billion.
As of 2018, Google and Facebook controlled 60% of all digital advertising revenue, totaling over $60 billion.
In a ''[[New York Times]]'' op-ed entitled ''Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy and the Free Press'', the left-wing expert on monopoly power Matt Stoller described [[Facebook]] and [[Google]] as “global monopolies sitting astride public discourse,” and recounted how bipartisan policy and legal changes designed to whittle away antitrust protections have bestowed the two [[Big Tech]] giants with “a radical centralization of power over the flow of information.” And he warns that this unprecedented consolidation of control over our discourse is close to triggering “the collapse of [[journalism]] and [[democracy]].”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/opinion/tech-monopoly-democracy-journalism.html</ref>
Big Tech is playing a large role in the decline of [[patriotism]] as a value held by Americans.<ref>Wright, Morgan (November 28, 2018). [https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/418617-high-techs-globalism-is-slowly-killing-patriotism High tech’s globalism is slowly killing patriotism]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved November 28, 2018.</ref>
Big Tech is playing a large role in the decline of [[patriotism]] as a value held by Americans.<ref>Wright, Morgan (November 28, 2018). [https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/418617-high-techs-globalism-is-slowly-killing-patriotism High tech’s globalism is slowly killing patriotism]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved November 28, 2018.</ref>