Daylight (Atlee Pine, #3)

by David Baldacci

Social media has absolutely nothing to do with the truth. It has to do with making shitloads of money off ads trying to sell people crap they don’t need. But the terrible by-product of that is giving a global platform to the absolute worst elements of society. The result is that ‘truth’ is whatever you can convince people it is. It’s exactly what Orwell wrote about.” “How does this country survive, then?”

This nugget of wisdom is buried about half-way through this book. I had to go back a read it twice. How will we survive indeed?