Is There a Firestorm?

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I would bet there's more likely to be things that happen in Europe again for the same not just because of Europe generally has been more aggressive and regularly in these companies. I think the sort of partisan angle is going to be less although in the UK you argue we have a similar thing because it involves Brexit and things on those lines but it's so hard because we are in the bubble like just by it's hard to escape it. It feels like this fear over Facebook is so overwhelming at but I'm not totally sure that that is the case broadly it might be.

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