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The result is a dynamic in which platforms exercise near-autocratic control over the creators that frequent their platforms. YouTube can demonetize high-profile creators at will. TikTok can ban its biggest stars indefinitely. Apple determines who gets to live in its App Store, and OnlyFans can dictate the morality of their creators to appease their... See more
Katie Parrott • Legitimacy Lost
Surveillance capitalists know everything about us, whereas their operations are designed to be unknowable to us. They accumulate vast domains of new knowledge from us, but not for us. They predict our futures for the sake of others’ gain, not ours.
Shoshana Zuboff • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
... See more"Corrupt personalization is the process by which your attention is drawn to interests that are not your own," Sandvig wrote. The recommendation system "serves a commercial interest that is often at odds with our interests." In the case of Netflix, the misleading images and the omnipresent Fast & Furious suggestions may serve to increase user
A decade ago, I was only a couple of years into my venture career. I believed that growth and progress were synonymous – in an industry where scale was the ultimate target, platforms that achieved it were glorified. A decade later, I have learned that success is more nuanced, and we have to take accountability for the outcomes we encourage. New... See more
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures)
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on how social media platforms play on girl’s insecurities by tracking when a girl deletes multiple selfies to show her beauty adverts, and whether targeting young girls like this counts as abuse.
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novaramediainstagram.comAI Agents or Data Invaders? Meredith Whittaker Sounds the Alarm on Privacy Risks.
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growthforgeaiinstagram.comControlling valuable pillars of internet utility -- the flow of information, social connections, music and video delivery -- has created tremendous wealth for a few while very little for stakeholders not on the company’s cap table.
Michael Lazerow • Venture Capital in a Decentralized World
digital media are now ushering in the restoration of institutional control over society.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
Companies may exploit their market power in a host of competition-distorting ways that do not directly lead to short-term price and output effects.