The Challenge for the Platforms Is Curation, Right?

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There's a, i think, in the early design, for deciding how we see. What of our friends posts, do we see in the feed? And indeed, that was sort of like anathema, right? If you remember, back in 20 15, there was a bogle debated very briefly. It was the idea of the idea that you should incorporate some sort of authoritativeness into certain sources. That applied to gogle's search, but it wasn't applied to youtube some time after and that's because, you to was seen as an entertainment platform.

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