When the new head of #MI6 tells you about the dangers of power shifting from citizens to “private corporations and individuals”, it’s worth listening to. To me it’s rather clear that she alludes to the recent #Twitter #Meta and Musk rants about “censorship” in the context of the DSA fines they received for fostering scam and hate on their platforms:
as states race for tech supremacy, or as some algorithms become as powerful as states, those hyper-personalised tools could become a new vector for conflict and control.
Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations, and sometimes to individuals.
And at the same time, the foundations of trust in our societies are eroding. Information, once a unifying force, is increasingly weaponised. Falsehood spreads faster than fact, dividing communities and distorting reality. We live in an age of hyper-connection yet profound isolation. The algorithms flatter our biases and fracture our public squares. And as trust collapses, so does our shared sense of truth – one of the greatest losses a society can suffer.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/speech-by-blaise-metreweli-chief-of-sis-15-december-2025