social media
10 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 8 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement May 7, 2023 by Sujeet Kumar · across every show →
Everything said about social media, oldest first
May 7, 2023 negative
Kumar: Social Media Fits Fashion Commerce, Not Major Consumer Appliances
“Logically, let's say social media is one of the most leading channels. But for consumer goods, like white goods, Is it the performance? Is it the support? Is it the pricing? I don't know. Let's say buying AC on the social media is very hard to imagine.”
May 14, 2023 bearish
Bhat: AI will accelerate social media's psychological harms and envy
“Whatever social media did to the next generation's brain, AI will probably accelerate it. And that is kind of worrying, which is I think envy will go through all time high for those who are able to leverage it outside success for a lot more of your peers, whic…”
Nov 20, 2023 negative
Yassin: Social media offers 6-7 guaranteed viral crisis events annually
“So unfortunately, in social media, every year there's roughly like six to seven opportunities To go guaranteed viral. Guaranteed. Any video you make about a topic, it will go viral. Unfortunately, a lot of people utilize that just to get attention.”
May 24, 2025 negative
Jan 11, 2026 negative
Al Olama: Social media makes Machiavellian political deception impossible to sustain
“If you apply Machiavelli's thinking, Tony Prince that acts philanthropic, or acts kind, or acts like a family man, especially in our DNA with social media, it's absolutely impossible. Because you will have one bad moment, and it will come out. Regardless of ho…”
Feb 11, 2026 negative
Feb 11, 2026 neutral
Feb 11, 2026 positive
Harari: Taiwan built social algorithms that reward cross-group consensus over outrage
“Like you had these models from Taiwan, that they actually built it and it worked well, that you can take the same basic premises of social media and reverse them. You can have the algorithm rewarding content, like the algorithm, first of all, in this Taiwan sy…”
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Palihapitiya: Domestic social platforms cannot defeat algorithmic monoculture without state intervention
“In the absence of governmental support and intervention, the answer is no. The natural momentum is for monocultural consolidation. And the reason is because we've assumed and we've given the responsibility to an algorithmic arbiter that only values one thing a…”
Mar 11, 2026 bearish
Kamath: Major countries will develop sovereign versions of global tech platforms
“The way I'm looking at it with all the geopolitical stuff going on, if I were to wager a guess, I would think at some point in the future, we will all live in a more multipolar world where we individually countries go down the path of Russia and China, where m…”