Frances Fukuyama

Senior Fellow at Stanford's Institute for Hot Takes That Don't Age Well, focus on the beginnings and ends of histories.

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I wrote a little something about what I'm calling the end of Twitter history

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In watching the flow of events on Twitter over the past few hours or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history.

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...not to an "end of moderation" or a convergence between truth and trolls, as earlier predicted, but to an unabashed victory of economic and political narcissism.

[Frances Fukuyama @FrancesFukuyama]

In watching the flow of events on Twitter over the past few hours or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history.

[Frances Fukuyama @FrancesFukuyama]

The week that began full of self-confidence in the ultimate triumph of late stage capitalism seems at its close to be returning full circle to where it started...