Discussion

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  Facebook has 2bn users posting 100bn times a day. The global SMS system had 20-25bn messages a day. So is this a publisher? A platform? A telco? No. We don't really know what we think about speech online, nor how to think about it, nor who should decide. https://www.ben-evans.com…

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  Benedict asks questions and frames the problem facing those wishing to regulate (as they should) social networks. How do SN relate to publishers? What is the historical context and precedent? https://twitter.com/...

• @robinkwong Robin Kwong on x

  “An SMS or a WhatsApp message still count fairly straightforwardly as a private conversation, but at what point does a Facebook Group become ‘public’?” Online speech and publishing — Benedict Evans https://www.ben-evans.com/...

• @bostonjoan Joan Donovan, PhD on x

  Technology driven standards are exactly how we got into a position, where platform companies dominate the web through a vision of the economy they want to see in the world. We need standards and values driving technology innovation. https://hbr.org/...

• @bostonjoan Joan Donovan, PhD on x

  In today's oped, I wrote for @HarvardBiz about the role that growth has played in making social media into disinformation machines, with a big cite to @sivavaid https://hbr.org/... Thanks for the edits @tom_stackpole

• @frankpasquale Frank Pasquale on x

  When a “global advertising company leverages its vast array of dossiers on its two billion users to limit competition and invite antidemocratic forces to infest its channels with disinformation, democratic states should move to break it up” https://hbr.org/...

• @skgreen Sarah Green Carmichael on x

  Social media's disinformation problem stems from a business model focused on scale. Great insights here from @BostonJoan: https://hbr.org/...

• @harvardbiz @harvardbiz on x

  Social media didn't become weaponized overnight. How did its business models allow this to happen? https://hbr.org/...

• @moonalice Roger McNamee on x

  To understand disinformation, look to @BostonJoan for guidance ... https://twitter.com/...