Disruption Timeline

  • COVID-19

    COVID-19

    Social media disrupted accurate public health alerts with misinformation and inadvertently spread more paranoia throughout the world.
  • Financial Markets Manipulation

    Financial Markets Manipulation

    Reddit's r/WallStreetBets forum allowed for a coordinated buying spree that challenged Wall Street's established power dynamics and caused major losses for institutional investors.
  • Elon Musk Buys Twitter

    Elon Musk Buys Twitter

    Elon Musk purchased Twitter which caused various disruptions in digital communications and advertising strategies.
  • AI-Generated Images

    AI-Generated Images

    The established understandings of media authenticity were disrupted and posed a threat to information accuracy.
  • Meta Outages

    Meta Outages

    The outage temporarily blocked small businesses and advertisers from reaching customers and affected communication for over 3.5 billion users.