Facebook is like the same muddying the water thing we talked about before and like breach or selling data right basically Facebook ruined it for everyone by giving away so much data. What is most needed is a way to export the friend graph like oh who your friends are, he says.
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
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