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We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

At the bottom are the social media platforms. This was actually a really tough call! All of these offer such superior demand aggregation to any other offering that they should win on default. However, they barely share revenue with creators at all. When they do, it comes in the form of opaque “Creator Funds,” which are unreliable and not a way for ... See more

Second, we must move beyond thinking of platform content moderation policies as “the solution” and prioritize rethinking design. Policy establishes guardrails and provides justification to disrupt certain information cascades, but does so reactively and, presently, based on the message substance. Although policy shapes propagation, it does so

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Technologists are obsessed with reaching god (lower case g) AS technology

Instead reaching God (upper case G) THROUGH technology

Or take the value of Wikipedia. The creation of this is more or less akin to installing a Bodleian library in every house in Britain. Does this massive new wealth register on GDP figures? Not a blip. Or the new availability of blogs and podcasts. Tremendous writers who, just a decade ago, would have been lecturing to half-empty theatres are now re

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Audience buying is cloaked in opacity – the major platforms are deeply invested in making sure no one truly understands how attention is priced. That means a media company buying audience on Facebook or Google will always be at an informational disadvantage – exposing them to a new kind of arbitrage, one executed by the platform’s own algorithms an... See more

In 2020, we saw the lines between journalists and digital creators continue to evaporate.