We're Gonna Podcast About Facebook Again

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Facebook had this coming even if it's arguably unfair reasons yes Cambridge and latico was not effective. To blame them slowly or exclusively for Trump's election is is ridiculous they still had this privacy reckoning coming. We podcast about Facebook again although I think this fits in well with ourOur library of Facebook podcasts yeah no it does to a sense feel like we've been building to this point. It's kind of crazy the extent to which a lot of the topics we've talked about came to a head over the past week.

Ben and James discuss Facebook’s current crisis, and why almost everyone misunderstands what the company did wrong: the problem isn’t advertising, it was Facebook’s desire to be a platform.

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Links

James Allworth: What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking — Medium
Ben Thompson: The Facebook Brand — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Tim Cook’s Unfair and Unrealistic Privacy Speech — Stratechery
Mark Zuckerberg’s Reckoning: ‘This Is a Major Trust Issue’ — The New York Times
Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Good News — Stratechery
Nicholas Thompson: Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Wired About Facebook’s Privacy Problem — Wired
Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide — Stratechery