Trump’s Palm Beach Victory Celebration
"If you want to win an election in India or any of the developing countries, you need to win the WhatsApp war."
Payal Arora • The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
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In the aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election, these attitudes radically shifted. For different reasons, both sides of the political spectrum began to immensely distrust the platform monopolies. The algorithmically curated streams that had once seemed so futuristic suddenly became Orwellian. Today, it’s not only acceptable to move more of your... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Darren LI added
Now, though, I realize that this confusion stems from making the same mistake I did in that old analysis of Facebook: I was looking to the real world as a guide to understanding the Internet, when it was in fact inevitable that the Internet would, over time, come to impact the real world. Some of that impact will be fleeting, like many of the prote... See more
Stratechery • Mistakes and Memes
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Jasmine Roseboro and added
If big tech ends up making a real difference in this fight, an unavoidable consequence will be politicans becoming afraid of apps.
Dan Grover • How Chinese Apps Handled Covid-19
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“a single massive system that could merge the information collected from pollsters, fund-raisers, field workers, and consumer databases as well as social-media and mobile contacts with the main Democratic voter files in the swing states.”
Ray Velez • Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology
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