There has been talk of a new Dark Age. The political power of states is declining. The large conglomerates of the new digital and financial economy are extending their reach ever further and have begun to penetrate the political arena. Is it Trump who has empowered the tech magnates in his second term as US president, or are the techno-oligarchs the ones who put him in power? Who can stop them? The new global ideological framework is democracy versus authoritarianism. And the battle is being fought largely on social media.