Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow

**It’s not your imagination. Life online really does get worse by the day, and that is by intent.** Misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, fraud, and AI slop are drowning the internet. For the monopolists who dominate online – X, TikTok, Amazon, Meta, Apple – this is all part of the playbook. The process is what leading tech critic Cory Doctorow has dubbed ‘enshittification’.