social media platforms

“You can actually reduce polarization. By not building everything just around engagement numbers and you know, what to do exactly. I don't think that's the problem. The real problem is that if you do that, you make less money. That's the real problem.”

“No, they're removing almost a majority of Trump conservatives off of social media platforms, pushing them further into deep internet holes where they only see each other and they only talk to each other.”

“As long as we have only, you know, three or four places in the Western world at least, where this discourse is happening and therefore three or three, three or four centralized organizations that get to dictate the rules of the discourse and the forum, the mec…”

“The more you enable the conversation to be there versus building your audience and having, you know, your own properties that people go to, the more power you're actually going to lose in aggregate.”

“I think it mainly because of their business model, where they want you to spend as many time as you can watching ads, basically. And so the more you watch content and videos that are interesting for you, the more you will stay on the platform. And this is real…”

“Most of the platforms are seeing declines in daily active users. WhatsApp is going up. Snapchat, eh, but, like, most of them are going down.”