Media, Regulators, and Big Tech; Indulgences and Injunctions; Better Approaches
by Ben Thompson
added by sari and · updated 8mo ago
Media, Regulators, and Big Tech; Indulgences and Injunctions; Better Approaches
Google and Facebook have always been predicated on doing things for the user, just as Microsoft and Apple have been built on enabling users and developers to make things completely unforeseen.
from Tech’s Two Philosophies by stratechery.com
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- I think there are three algorithms that have reshaped the American press in ways that we are just now starting to confront. You have Google and Facebook, which can serve up this incredible fire hose of traffic to publishers so long as they cater to the ever-shifting whims of that algorithm.
from Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton by Alex Kantrowitz
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- 'Big internet platforms' send traffic to newspapers, which is worth money to them, but now they must also pay the newspaper companies for those links, or to use the snippets and extracts that the newspapers give them (yes, all those extracts are controlled by newspapers).
from Paying for news — Benedict Evans by Benedict Evans
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