Feature / December 11, 2023

The Algorithm Oligarchy

How the Internet produced the age of monopoly platforms.

Colleen Tighe
Colleen Tighe

Colleen Tighe is an illustrator, writer and animator. She likes learning about the structures making up our world, and her cat.

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