including political messaging, but then, ijust became curious about why that's the technology we have, and ifinishedrselves because of personalising technology. i think we have personalising technology because we're already obsessed with ourselves and insecure about who we are. and so if somebody provides a platform or a service or a company that says, well, everything will be tailored to you, katie, and your uniquely discerning tastes in whatever it is — politicians, biscuits, whatever it is you're looking at... biscuits, definitely. then we will respond to that because it's tapping into our anxieties, which are very particular to now and to western societies now, i think. does that mean you're letting the tech companies off the hook? not entirely. i mean, i do think there's a lot of things that they could be doing better, and certainly they can be quite unscrupulous in the way they do tap into those insecurities in ways that are not healthy. but i also think if we go completely over and say everything is the tech companies' fault, oh, no, i'm completely helpless, the technology made me do it, then