Elizabeth Holmes’s Guilty Verdict Won’t Change Silicon Valley

To see the headlines tell it this week, it was as if Silicon Valley had been reformed once and for all—as if the tech world, which has led to so much societal chaos, which has been blamed for the rise in bullying and teen suicide, which has augmented fake news and and conspiracy theories and lured billions into the grip of evil algorithmic overlords, had finally been baptized and absolved of its sins. Why? Because of the guilty verdict in the Elizabeth Holmes trial. The same verdict the Drudge Report called a “landmark Silicon Valley case” and that NPR splayed… Read Full Article