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On Medium, Facebook, and the Graph Conflict
I double took upon arriving at Medium just now, fingers flexed to write about semi-private data and hotel rooms (trust me, it’s gonna be great). But upon my arrival, I was greeted thusly: Now, I have...
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Dear Facebook…Please Give Me Agency Over The Feed
(cross posted from NewCo Shift) Like you, I am on Facebook. In two ways, actually. There’s this public page, which Facebook gives to people who are “public figures.” My story of becoming a Facebook...
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When Senators Ask Followup Questions, You Answer Them.
Following my Senate testimony last month, several Senators reached out with additional questions and clarification requests. As I understand it this is pretty standard. Given I published my testimony...
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Social Media Too Shall Pass
At dinner last night with my wife and our 14 year-old daughter, I noticed a circular table of four teenage girls eating alone. They were about the same age as my daughter, who wasn’t exactly thrilled...
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Governance, Technology, and Capitalism.
Or, Will Nature Just Shrug Its Shoulders? If you pull far enough back from the day to day debate over technology’s impact on society – far enough that Facebook’s destabilization of democracy, Amazon’s...
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Facebook Can’t Fix This.
The last 24 hours have not been kind to Facebook’s already bruised image. Above are four headlines, all of which clogged my inbox as I cleared email after a day full of meetings. Let’s review: Any...
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Tik Tok, Tick Tock…Boom.
Something’s been bugging me about Tik Tok. I’ve almost downloaded it about a dozen times over the past few months. But I always stop short. I don’t have a ton of time (here’s why) so forgive me as I...
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Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering
It’s getting complicated out there. (First in a series. Post two, on Twitter’s solution, is here). Marketers – especially brand marketers: Too many of you have lost the script regarding the critical...
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Threads: We Don’t Want to “Hang Out With Everybody.” Sometimes, We Want To...
(AP Photo/Richard Drew) Apparently the open web has finally died. This the very same week Meta launches Threads, which, if its first day is any indication, seems to be thriving (10 million sign ups in...
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Advertising Is Coming To Threads. What Happens Next?
With thanks to Scott Monty I stopped using Twitter over a year ago, as soon as Elon Musk took control of the place. I don’t miss it – it was already a pretty toxic place, and my tenure at The Recount,...
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