A new op-ed by me for Crain’s went live today talking about how Meta’s Threads will reshape the social landscape.
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I’m user 1023268 on Threads, Meta’s new Twitter competitor, which launched on Wednesday and already has more than 100 million new users. (Being in the first two million means I signed up in the first two hours, apparently.)
Why subject myself to a Twitter competitor—launched by the guy famous for having such loose global moderation that his platforms lead to genocide?
Read MoreYesterday I attended a day-long summit hosted by the Executive’s Club in Chicago on CSR & ESG, and something was said on stage that has been rattling around in my brain.
Read MoreYesterday, Dorie Clark invited me on her Newsweek LinkedIn Live series to talk about digital leadership and change management.
Read MoreI had an op-ed published in Crain’s today contextualizing the Muskification of Twitter within Twitter’s already declining user experience. Since it’s behind a paywall, here are some key points.
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Was I happy when I heard that the FTC and more than 40 states were accusing Facebook of anti-competitive behavior and demanding they spin off Instagram and WhatsApp? Happy is an understatement. I was ecstatic.
Digging into the details, this seems like an important first step, but a difficult one. Anti-competitive behavior is hard to prove—especially when those acquisitions were approved less than a decade ago—though in this case it’s pretty well known how Facebook has had a chilling effect on the social media industry with its buy, copy, or kill approach.
The problem is in the framing: thinking of Facebook as a social media company.
Read MoreImportant new research from Pew on how experts predict digital innovation will affect democracy between now and 2030.
Lots of very interesting findings—and disagreements—but a few I honed in on:
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