Max Read

“A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive.”

Has the time come for Westphalian sovereignty to coexist with web failson sovereignty?

In a little more than a decade, Facebook has become one of the most important technology companies in the world. But as it’s grown, the company has had to try to figure out how to govern its 2 billion users, something it hasn’t quite managed. In light of that, Max Read grapples with an increasingly important problem: What exactly is Mark Zuckerberg’s world-spanning empire?

Read, a former editor-in-chief of Gawker, examines the rise and fall of the polarizing site.