“More broadly, the righteousness with which Thiel acted, and with which many on Twitter reacted, combined with a seeming lack of obliviousness to how this might look to the outside world, very much reconfirmed fears I have voiced repeatedly that the tech industry is headed for a regulatory disaster…”Tagged: The Present Of Media, Peter Thiel, Facebook, Gawker, Thiel vs Gawker
“It is in Facebook's interest to make sure media organizations have the means to produce the content that makes Facebook the front door to the Internet; that Facebook would make this change knowing it will hurt media organizations (the company wrote in a second blog post that "We anticipate that this…”Tagged: Facebook, Facebook Referral Traffic, The Present Of Media, Facebook Prioritizes Friends June 2016
“The fact of the matter is that Facebook is a whole lot closer to a common carrier or infrastructure than any information-providing service we have seen before.”Tagged: The Present Of Media, Facebook, Election 2016, Fake News, Digital Monopolies