“Facebook is fundamentally not a network of ideas. It’s a network of people.”— Brian Bergstein, technologyreview.com
“They’re always the first one to like your status on Facebook or comment on a new picture of you, telling you how great you look.”— Nico Lang, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes people’s engagement announcements on Facebook and Instagram are going to make you feel crappy, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean you’re bitter, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person, and it doesn’t mean you’re not wishing them the best. It just means that you’re human, and you’re worried abou…”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“Going forward, we will measure Facebook's progress with groups based on meaningful groups, not groups overall. This will require not only helping people connect with existing meaningful groups, but also enabling community leaders to create more meaningful groups for people to connect with.”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“As a buyer, you cannot place advertising on Google and Facebook, optimize your spend against those audiences, and then port those learnings and that spend to other platforms. It's like Hotel California: you can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!”— Alex Merwin, adage.com
“Publishers can also sell ads inside Instant Articles. Might this be a viable publishing model? Probably not, but even if it were, Facebook could change its terms at any time. It is not Facebook’s responsibility to provide a new business model for news organisations. If they don’t like the terms, the…”— Tom Standage, pressgazette.co.uk
“Now, however, the marketing industry is facing a moral quandary in the face of a national debate over the role that fake news played in the presidential election and the realization that many websites that promote false and misleading stories are motivated by the money they can make from online adve…”— Sapna Maheshwari, nytimes.com
“Next time he surprises you with a candlelight dinner at home or something similar, take a picture of it and post it on Facebook. He’ll pretend like he’s annoyed by it, but he toottttaaally isn’t.”— Kevin Armento, thedatereport.com
“The age of cable news changed our media distribution model by creating a 24 hour news cycle, which meant finding more information and more analysis (THE SUMMER OF SHARKS!) to keep viewers watching. The age of digital news has changed the distribution model in a much larger way: news consumers have t…”— Daniel Ketchell, medium.com
“Another interesting limitation of speech recognition systems -- and machine learning systems more generally -- is that they are more optimized for specific problems than most people realize. For example, understanding a person talking to a computer is subtly different problem from understanding a pe…”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“The Observer knows that the headline ‘Dave Chappelle Told Jokes About Politics’ is going to do less well than its sensational headline about him defending Trump and trashing Clinton (just as TMZ knew they could get traffic out of baiting Chappelle into responding). Just as you know deep down that mo…”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“Starting in the middle of next year, Facebook will stop showing users more ads in their news feed, the tactic it has been using to juice revenue growth for the past two years, the company said Wednesday. As a result, advertising growth will ‘come down meaningfully,’ Chief Financial Officer Dave Wehn…”— Deepa Seetharaman, wsj.com
“Pay more attention to what’s going on in the world. If you struggle to keep up with the news like I do, just make simple changes in your life. Set a news site as your browser home page. Follow Twitter accounts or Facebook pages that provide daily updates in your newsfeed”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“If your boyfriend suddenly starts flirting with other girls knowing full well you can see him doing it - in person or on Facebook - he's sending you a message.”— Jessica Booth, gurl.com
“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.”— Ben Thompson, stratechery.com
“I thought [Trump supporters] would fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.com
“My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up.…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.com
“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got elected. He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didn’t care because…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.com
“This is the state of truth on the internet in 2016, now that it is as easy for a Macedonian teenager to create a website as it is for The New York Times, and now that the information most likely to find a large audience is that which is most alarming, not most correct.”— Jessi Hempel, backchannel.com