social media

“Being excited about a tool that that that evolves around financial principles controlled by a bunch of investors trying to amass huge number of audience. And selling advertisement on it, you know, that's, that, that kind of a model in my view, it still exists,…”

“If you're trying to make content and you want to be happy, it is impossible.”

“Social media was not at all toxic in 2004, you know, when the Facebook came out and in my space, and if you're sharing photos of your dog, there's no problem. It really was the move to the newsfeed and then especially The implementation of the retweet button, …”

“A small number of young people use social media, not to make arguments, not to respond to arguments, but to destroy anyone who contradicts their sacred values. And that's what makes a group stupid.”

“The furthest to the right, known as devoted conservatives comprised six percent of the U S population, the group furthest to the left, the progressive activists comprised eight percent of the population. The progress the progressive act activists were by far t…”

“There is no government agency that has jurisdiction over social media. It doesn't go out over the airwaves. So it's not FCC.”

“Social media gave everybody a dart gun, and as a result, Because most people don't want to shoot anybody, but the far left, the far right, trolls, a few groups of people shoot moderates in their institutions, and they shoot the leaders of the institutions. So …”

“I think that American democracy is likely to fail catastrophically at some point in the next decade or two decades. It's very hard to predict the future, but I think we are, the way we're headed is a very, very bad direction.”

“The process of education is based on World War II supply chain economics, which don't exist right now. And so kids are going through education platforms that are not designed for the future. They're not designed for AI. They're not designed for social media.”

“I think it's primarily social media. I think that social media so, so I think that Americans, America was this very big, diverse country. You had ideological diversity. We had geographic diversity, not just like racial diversity, which is what we typically thi…”

“Organizing on social media and the ability of social media to, To cause change in the world. That has certainly not gone away even as it's faded from the headlines.”

“These stories will never be covered exactly in the fawning way they were previously, because I think the world now really understands that there is a complex set of consequences that come. When you have social media introduced into society and used to organize…”

“I think we've seen some good players emerge in the social media space like a blue sky that doesn't seem to be focused on getting people to, you know, just spend as much time as possible on the platform all the time. That said, I think it limits their growth”

“I think it's less that there's a lot of social media sort of oriented folks that have now moved into AI. It's more that I think a lot of the best product people were focused on that, you know, even four years ago, you know, pre-chat GPT you know, pre the emerg…”

“I think you're going to see you're going to see more, more social media move to semi-private that look more like group chats, and it can be around, you know, sports or music or technology or relationships just because I think that people might be a little bit …”

“Social media is the hardest category to succeed in, and that's why they've been able to do it.”

“What is social media? I view it literally not so much different than the neighborhood you know, pot or crack dealer. It's there to get kids hooked and addicted and put a lifetime of interdependency.”

“If you're optimizing for engagement, which is what social media does, you can't also optimize for accuracy and quality, because that tends to not be what people engage with.”