The January 6 insurrection was a snapshot of a polarized democracy with a broken information environment — in part warped by Big Tech’s ruthless pursuit of profit. Five years later, Congress has still failed to enact meaningful reforms to hold these companies accountable for their harms. (🧵)

Instead, major technology companies have aggressively lobbied to weaken critical cybersecurity infrastructure, attacked independent researchers working to protect democracy, and consolidated their influence at the highest levels of government.