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Facebook leadership does not care about employees or humanity, but only about market power and profit.

Facebook leadership does not care about employees or humanity, but only about market power and profit.

Sarah Wynn-Williams – Careless people

To make the central thesis compelling, it would have been better to split the book in two: one on Facebook’s policy choices and one on how it treats its employees.

The US is losing out in AI, due to a lack of long-term vision and direction

The US is losing out in AI, due to a lack of long-term vision and direction

Amy Webb – The big nine

The book’s set-up with multiple scenarios for the future works surprisingly well and is especiall concerning for European readers: Europe is almost completely irrelevant in all of Webb’s scenarios.

Facebook’s content strategy leads to filter bubbles, thereby  destroying the cohesion in society

Facebook’s content strategy leads to filter bubbles, thereby destroying the cohesion in society

Roger McNamee – Zucked

When a a big tech investor like McNamee argues for stricter regulation it makes the argument more convincing.

You are the raw material of capitalists trading in futures on human behavior

You are the raw material of capitalists trading in futures on human behavior

Shoshana Zuboff – Surveillance capitalism

There is a tendency in critiques of ‘big tech’ to underestimate the long-term resilliance of mankind; although that does not render the argument invalid.

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