facebook was annoyed that twitter was known as the place for for live stuff and live events. And this was kind of their answer to that, so that's why they hired this team. They were all miserable because they were, like, the culture of facebook was such that it was almost implicitly reacting against the existence of this team in the first place. This is actually gitsto my bigger concern about facebook as a business, like their desire to thei refusal to accept the very existence of anyone else. It sprang from what i do think is a concern about zuckerberg and his leadership is this like insistence that facebook, you know, own all social interactions. That's not going to happen
Ben and James discuss the allegations that Facebook is censoring conservative news, and renew their ongoing debate about Facebook’s power. Then, why Google’s current situation is similar to Microsoft, even though the long-term looks good.
Links
- Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here’s What Happened When It Hired Some. — Gizmodo
- Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News — Gizmodo
- Nilay Patel: Let’s Say Obvious Things About Facebook and Conservative News — The Verge
- Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The Real Problem with Facebook and the News — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Defending Facebook Stratechery Daily Update
- Nicholas Kristof: A Confession of Liberal Intolerance — New York Times
- Ben Thompson: Facebook, Phones, and Phonebook — Stratechery
- James Allworth: The Blessing of Failure — Medium
- Ben Thompson: Google’s Go-to-Market Gap — Stratechery
- Steve Yegge: Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant — Google Plus
- Ben Thompson: Everything as a Service — Stratechery
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