social media platforms

10 statements across 9 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Oct 16, 2020 by Chamath Palihapitiya · across every show →

Everything said about social media platforms, oldest first

Oct 16, 2020 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Switching to reverse chronological feeds would drop ad revenue 90%
“If you go from an algorithmic feed to a reverse chronological feed only, I can tell you what will happen in my opinion, which is that the revenue monetization on a per page per impression basis will go off by 90%.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 16:52 E10: Twitter & Facebook botch censorship (again), the publisher vs. distributor debate & more
Dec 4, 2021 negative
Opinion
Calacanis: Social media platforms are 80% Democrat with significant political bias
“I agree there's bias. I agree that these companies are 70, 80% Democrat, and I agree they all have significant issues around Trump derangement syndrome.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 4, 2021 ▶ 1:16:56 E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
Apr 9, 2022 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: Social media platforms censoring topics will lose users over time
“They're going to lose users over time. They're going to end up looking like idiots when they're wrong by banning certain topics that we should be having conversations about over time.”
David Friedberg Apr 9, 2022 ▶ 54:39 E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
Apr 30, 2022 positive
Insight
Sacks: Social platforms should base moderation policies on First Amendment precedent
“Instead of just making up the content moderation policies as I went along, I would look at the peep at the cases where people have been wrestling with these decisions for decades. And I would create a content moderation policy inspired by First Amendment case …”
David Sacks Apr 30, 2022 ▶ 1:35:15 E78: VC fund metrics that matter, private market update, recession, student loans, Bill Hwang arrest
Oct 22, 2022
Insight
Friedberg: Social networks are vulnerable application layers, not true digital monopolies
“I think it's a really clear supporting fact that there are going to be alternatives. And that these, what we thought were monopolies and what kind of became digital town squares and almost infrastructure are really just application layers. They're editorialize…”
David Friedberg Oct 22, 2022 ▶ 6:51 E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
Oct 29, 2022 neutral
Opinion
Friedberg: Social media platforms should never impose lifetime user bans
“I don't think anyone should have a lifetime ban on these platforms.”
David Friedberg Oct 29, 2022 ▶ 16:58 E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
Oct 29, 2022
Insight
Sacks: Social platforms should ban slurs, not entire categories of arguments
“I think slurs, slurs, banned or out, but arguments, I don't know that we should be banning entire categories of arguments.”
David Sacks Oct 29, 2022 ▶ 24:30 E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
Dec 10, 2022 positive
Opinion
Chamath: Government regulation is necessary for major social media platforms
“I do think governments have to step in and create better guardrails. So this kind of stuff doesn't happen. I don't buy the whole it's safe, you know, private company. They can do what they want. I think that that is too naive of an expectation for how importan…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 10, 2022 ▶ 20:59 E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
Jul 4, 2024 neutral
Insight
Friedberg: Social media platforms are editorial content companies, not public utilities
“At the end of the day, these are all, as I've shared in the past, my belief is they're all content companies. They have a choice as executives and its editors. Of those companies to decide how to editorialize the content on their platforms.”
David Friedberg Jul 4, 2024 ▶ 39:46 Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship
Oct 31, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Musk: Other social platforms reduced censorship after Twitter changed policy
“Once Twitter broke ranks, the others had to it became very obvious what the others were doing. And so they had to mitigate their censorship substantially as because of what Twitter did.”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 39:35 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
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