No. 90: Tech companies are lobbying the Pope. The authority gap just got theological.

from The Pattern · host Mike Litman

Culture Pulse: 72. Meta and Google lobbied the Vatican ahead of the AI encyclical. When tech seeks papal authority, the platform legitimacy era is over. @thepatternbrief Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-05-25.html

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