But the public pressure is so far non-existent. Even pseudo-populists like the Repub MO senators smell mileage to be gained out of pillorying them. Let’s put that shame to good use— make news funding and base data collection part of the future as much as internet infrastructure.
Reading recent good books about Facebook (e.g. An Ugly Truth by Frenkel and Kang) or Maria Ressa’s interviews about how 90+ of news in many countries comes from Facebook reveals the public consequences of the business model. They are ripe for this pressure.
Unfortunately they are making too much money for this to work I think, or they would already be acting very different.
But the public pressure is so far non-existent. Even pseudo-populists like the Repub MO senators smell mileage to be gained out of pillorying them. Let’s put that shame to good use— make news funding and base data collection part of the future as much as internet infrastructure.
Reading recent good books about Facebook (e.g. An Ugly Truth by Frenkel and Kang) or Maria Ressa’s interviews about how 90+ of news in many countries comes from Facebook reveals the public consequences of the business model. They are ripe for this pressure.