14 Media Thoughts

There are more news outlets than there is news. I heard Barry Diller make this argument a few years ago. It was probably true before then, and of course it’s even more true now than it was when he originally said it.

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Facebook. I would argue that Facebook is more powerful than a single nation as its reach is worldwide, excluding the obvious few censorship-prone countries. And as for the latter point – if Rupert Murdoch wanted to influence the outcome of an election, we would know he was doing it. If Facebook wanted to (which it easily could of course, via a simple tweak in an algorithm), we’d never know. Users only see around six percent of the content their friends post as is, so who would think to wonder what’s in the 94% being filtered out?

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