As Clegg worked for him, could he be a useful adviser on how to deal with this new world? Or is he too close? Still not sure if he jumped or was pushed.
It’s scary how much power he’s handing big tech. We will live to regret it (hopefully, I mean when he hands more power to Putin and abandons NATO who knows).
As is healthy, I don’t always agree with dag, but he has nailed this one. It’s entirely rational for Zuck and any other billionaire techbro asset to switch.
Zuckerberg has always been very two faced about these issues. Using Nick Clegg to provide a smokescreen, well. We know that tale.
Meta's platforms don't generate much new opinion, but that's by choice. They are large on paper and even if they stay downstream of Twitter, they're useful to spread it.
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See the piece by @dag.bluesky.social in today's FT
As to push or jump, at a guess I would say the latter. It wasn't difficult to see which way the wind was blowing when Trump/Musk got elected
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/business/media/news-corp-facebook-news.html
Pay the Guardian say, & I wouldn’t be as concerned.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/03/01/facebook-stop-paying-news-publishers-shut-down-section/
Meta's platforms don't generate much new opinion, but that's by choice. They are large on paper and even if they stay downstream of Twitter, they're useful to spread it.