On Monday, tech luminaries appeared at the Wired 25 conference. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos weighed in on the current state of social media. Bezos – —I worry that some of these technologies will be very useful to autocratic regimes to enforce their will.— He also said, “the Internet in its current incarnation is a confirmation bias machine.” Bezos believes the problems facing social media are common to other technologies in their early stages. Bezos does not fee the progress should not be halted.
