All due to respect to Anil, but I think his point about "New York Times = Facebook" is a perspective of someone who doesn't use either of them, but only sees viral snippets of both. He gives it away with point three, "so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is."
The online left is absolutely obsessed with the NY Times and seems convinced that its headlines drive policy and swing elections, but there's absolutely no evidence that they have that kind of influence in the 2020s. They're ascribing Claudine Gay's firing to Times coverage, but this is conjecture. (Maybe the donors withholding millions of dollars of donations had something to do with it.)
And people who aren't on Facebook are obsessed with Facebook because they think the News Feed algorithm is massively influential, but again the evidence on this is extremely weak, and Facebook has changed a lot since the mid-'10s.
That smoking area review is 10000% why i will keep reading this no matter where ya go. As for the cycles of internet- history doesn’t repeat itself but it sure as shit rhymes
All due to respect to Anil, but I think his point about "New York Times = Facebook" is a perspective of someone who doesn't use either of them, but only sees viral snippets of both. He gives it away with point three, "so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is."
The online left is absolutely obsessed with the NY Times and seems convinced that its headlines drive policy and swing elections, but there's absolutely no evidence that they have that kind of influence in the 2020s. They're ascribing Claudine Gay's firing to Times coverage, but this is conjecture. (Maybe the donors withholding millions of dollars of donations had something to do with it.)
And people who aren't on Facebook are obsessed with Facebook because they think the News Feed algorithm is massively influential, but again the evidence on this is extremely weak, and Facebook has changed a lot since the mid-'10s.
That smoking area review is 10000% why i will keep reading this no matter where ya go. As for the cycles of internet- history doesn’t repeat itself but it sure as shit rhymes