How to Save the Internet
  • Published: 4 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529948790
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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How to Save the Internet

The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict

  • Nick Clegg
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Nick Clegg, formerly one of Meta’s most senior executives, presents a blueprint for reforming Big Tech while preserving the essential openness of the internet

The global, open internet is fragmenting.

As democracies seek to rein in the power of Big Tech, as Silicon Valley pivots to an America-first agenda, as authoritarian regimes such as China and Russia segregate their populations from the rest of the internet, the most powerful tool ever created for bringing the world together risks being dismantled.

Taking us behind the scenes at Meta and his interactions with world leaders, Nick Clegg, Meta’s former President, Global Affairs, sets out where Big Tech has gone wrong, how Silicon Valley’s insularity has blinded it to its missteps, and the radical reforms of the global platforms that are now needed if they are to secure a long-term future.

But he also makes the case that many of the charges against them – including that their algorithms polarise, manipulate and harm – are vastly overstated or simply untrue. And while new laws that regulate these corporations are essential, imposing national borders on the internet cannot be the answer. That will fatally undermine its capacity for knowledge-sharing, collaboration, education, trade, medical and scientific research, and ultimately for the improvement and empowerment of billions of lives.

Radical, reasonable, deeply felt and disarmingly honest, How To Save the Internet sets out a blueprint for the global cooperation we need in order to reform Big Tech while preserving the fundamental openness of the internet on which our future so depends.
  • Published: 4 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529948790
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

Praise for How to Save the Internet

A gripping and timely book. Nick Clegg writes with clarity, authority and urgency about how we have arrived at a digital crossroads - and about what is at stake with the choices that do not lie ahead but need to be made now

Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads

As generative AI reshapes everything from communication to geopolitics, we face a pivotal question: will open, democratic values shape the future – or will fragmentation and authoritarian models win? Nick Clegg makes a compelling case for global cooperation, responsible governance and shared infrastructure to ensure AI remains a force for freedom

Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and founding investor in OpenAI

The global internet – once a force for openness – is at risk of fracturing under the weight of the contest between open versus closed perspectives on the world. As Nick Clegg powerfully sets out, the technology revolution is the defining political challenge of our time and, as AI becomes more powerful, it is the leadership and values of democratic nations that must set the course

Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Nick Clegg issues a dire warning to democracies to resist the temptation to turn the internet into a 'splinter net' ... Clegg’s call for 'radical transparency' from Big Tech is all the more urgent as artificial intelligence threatens to upend and transform the world order

Nate Persily, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

How to Save the Internet goes behind the scenes at Meta and provides insight into how Silicon Valley's insularity has blinded it to its missteps

Guardian