The information gods

Three massive, concurrent tectonic shifts are reordering in dramatic ways how America and the world will get, and consume, information in the years ahead:

1. Trust in traditional media is vanishing.
2. Where people are getting information instead has shattered into dozens of ecosystems.
3. The world's most powerful social platforms—X, Facebook, Instagram—no longer police speech or information.

In this new information world order, the people with the largest platforms and followings hold more power than ever in shaping reality. That's a seismic shift in how realities are formed in real time.